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HeatherMcLeather -> RE: A good man (7/14/2011 3:08:31 PM)
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Now you get to tell one.
OK, this is the short version of how Hanners and I met, and why I fell for her so fast and hard.
I'd left home, for reasons that aren't important here, and I ran out of money in Ottawa. I was panhandling for change at the bus depot, hoping to scrounge up enough money to get to the shelter so I could try find a place to sleep and get a meal. I approached Hanners, instead of giving me some change, she took me home. She fed me, let me use her shower, loaned me something to wear, and set me up on her couch.
The next morning, she went out for a couple hours and when she came back she had some new clothes for me <what little I had were so filthy they weren't really salvageable> and enough money for me to take the bus back home. She told me that she thought I should get in touch with my folks and try to work things out, and that I was welcome to stay as long as I needed to to figure out what I was going to do. And that's where she left it, I was welcome to come, go, stay, whatever I felt I needed. She was available to me to talk to all I wanted. She advised me to try find a relative I could go live with if I couldn't go home, she helped me get in touch with my family, she was simply there for me, never pressuring me one way or another, just there to listen and to tell me what she thought would be the best course of action for me. She never once asked me for anything in return for staying there, other than to tidy up while she was at work. She never suggested I stay with her permanently, that was my idea, nor did she seduce me, that was my idea as well.
That's why Hanners is my angel, and why I am still here with her, and hope to always be, because she is a real keeper. Yes she is rough around the edges, but there is a sparkling diamond hiding behind her armour, and I wouldn't have her any other way. I love my Hannah Lynn with all my heart, and I am so grateful to God, fate, chance, or whatever it was that sent her to the Greyhound that night.
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