On May 8th 1970 "The Long And Winding Road" was released.I recall hearing it on the radio and bringing home the 45 to play.I cried when I first heard it and still weep to this day when I hear it at 62.I vividly remember being transported in a way that no other song has affected me then or now.It felt for no reason I can explain like a premonition of things to come, my fate laid out before me, a vision, a road that I knew I had to walk to get to loves door.As it happens my life has unfolded like the song said it would.At the age of 30 I fell in love with the love of my life on a fishing boat in Alaska spending many wild and windy nights together.I knew she was the one, but she was already committed to someone else.She left me standing there in an airport and It shattered me.My love for her was so strong that even though my heart was broken I felt that our love could not end and that it would never disappear.That somehow, some way, sometime, even if it wasn't in this lifetime, we would be together again.Many times I cried out for her in vain.
Years passed, I married, divorced, she lived for years in one relationship which ended in his passing then married and he also passed after 12 years.All the while my memory would not let go of her and my dreams from time to time were filled with her presence as if we had always been together.On January 2nd 2019, I received a letter from her telling me how sorry she was for the way we ended.We began again.As odd as it may sound I knew this would happen and that the song and my fate were one and the same.We are together again.She did not leave me standing there.The long and winding road finally led me to her door.Thank you Paul for your vision,humanity, and for all you have said in song for so many.
Sincerely,
Bruce and Toni