by ronde
This is one of the best stories I have ever read! Very classy and elegant. Please give us more wonderful stories like this! Thank you for your wonderful words!
This is one of the best stories I have ever read! Very classy and elegant. Please give us more wonderful stories like this! Thank you for your wonderful words!
PAT
In Tennessee
Brought many tears to my eyes. Thank you for the read. Jim Sorry I am anon
Fantastic story. But why do all the really good authors stop writing. Need more from you.
This is the second time I have read the story, and like the first time, it brought tears to my eyes, and I am a 59 year old retired Marine! Thank you for your gift, your story is one of the best I have read.
This by far,is the best story I have read on here. Beautifully written and expressed.
Its a well crafted story, but the bees buzzing in the vineyard at flowering bother me a bit as the grapes shure don't need bees for pollination. Grapes as a species predate bees considerably , anyhow perhaps we should put it down to artistic license and just enjoy the offering.
you made me cry with this one. thanks for a wonderful story
excellent tender, respectful and loving story
(I clicked the wrong star, so sorry)
This was a lovely story, very moving. You're a great story teller.
It was one of the best short stories I have ever read. It was gentle and kind and showed love, the kind that, like Tommy Dorsey's music, is rarely experienced any more. Thank you
I have read a lot of wonderful stories but thios one outshines them all, Thank you for a story about love not just sex, It had me in tears, but thats ok, I am an old Irish romantic . Please do not stop writing stories that are so beautiful and full of love.
i have no hesitation to say that this the best story of love i had read here in this site.It is sooo haunting and i want to be terry for my laura.
well this is a great story and i really enjoyed the read
keep up the good work
Laura's Vineyard proves yet again that a good author doesn't require wall to wall sex
to write a good yarn. Thank-you for a first class story.
Beautiful, touching and sensual. A splendid piece of writing and insight. Look forward to your next piece.
This is the best story I have ever read on this website, and I have read many! This story moved me to tears!
Every woman wants to feel beautiful, even those of us the world sees as homely. That one special person can see the beautiful girls we once were. That feeling is so important to every woman. Thank you for showing a mature woman in such a lovely light.
This just goes to show that we need to look past a person's exterior to see the true beauty within.
I believe this would make a hell of a movie. While I hate her politics, Annette Benning would make a great Laura. Not sure about rest of cast. I know it would be a sucess. Every women would absolutely love this movie and men would like it I think as well.
An absolutely great story.
My name is Ray Moog I can be reached at bleedpurple1969@hotmail.com.
Extremely pleasant reading. There is so much passion between Laura and Terry that goes unsaid. This would make a good movie.
I have not read a better story on any forum until I read this tale. You kept me captivated until the conclusion and I thank the Author for this beautiful story
58 year old male and feeling like a 17 yr old girl, very well written and dragged me into every bit of feeling that I have had for my special woman - thankyou
I read it in one breath..fantastic writing and amazing attention to details. I agree that this would be a perfect screenplay for a Oscar winning movie. Bravo.
One of the BEST stories in all of Literotica. Bravo for keeping it true to the love they felt. Thank You very much.
Absolutely beautiful story with an almost perfect ending. I'd love for them to have repeated the evening each year.
A superb story, with great feeling and delightfully written.
Well done and strongly visual, I can see these characters and I was caughtby the simple elegance of the narative.
Dear Ronde,
This is one of the most beautiful stories I've head the pleasure of reading at literotica. I haven't yet looked for other stories of you at this site, but I sure would love to read many of these wonderfull written stories for sure.
With kind regards,
Ronald
I have read hundreds of stories on this site but none match this one. This one I really enjoyed and brought tears to my eyes.
Thank you for the wonderful story. Im a 70 year old papa and i have tears running dow my face after reading it. thank you again.
Ronde -
I fell asleep last night reading your story and woke to the desire of wanting to finish it before I got out of bed. The bonds you described are few and far between for many and through your words you brought them to life. Thank you for a beautiful story and the memories you rekindled. I have saved this story so I can read it again when I need to feel uplifted and reminded that we are beautiful at any age (46 in 5 days).
I will continue reading your stories and I am sure there will be days that I will live on the words you write.
KW
Totally enjoyd this story. Even had a tear or two in my eyes. Plan to share it with my wife.
A story well told. With sex in the backdrop instead of mainstage. Character interplay with plot development hand-in-hand. A pleasant break from the 'insert-tab-A-into-slot-C' mechanics that too many fall into.
Best, most wonderfully told story I've read on this site. I was aroused in chapter 2, followed by tears in chapter 3. Very heartwarming story that you allowed to slowly unfold and come to a most appropriate conclusion.
Love, once thought lost forever, is found again.
Add in the fact that a love for vineyards and fine wine is passed along to another generation, and you get this wonderful tale.
When I found out Laura was 50 years old, I did not want to read more, but somehow I read the complete story, and now I am having tears in my eyes. I came to read a sex story,but ended up reading a great story.Thanks.
I accidentally 'rediscovered" this story today.
it has lost none of it's appeal. If anything was even better since that first read way back .... Hope to see your work again.
I have read many stories on Literotica but this was really loving ,tender ,moving and touching.This story had an innocence,a beauty that had more to do with matters of the heart rather than the loins.I was was moved as you took me on this journey that I didn't want to end .Well done. Such a tender story.Wow.
Excellent story andcould imagine it being true broughttears to my eyes. Keep up good work
stories I've read on Literotica. On one hand, it's a little sad, but on the other hand, it's uplifting and heart-warming. No wonder this story has maintained its popularity for more than ten years. Great story.
how lucky i was to find this. thanks... so romantic and sensual and lovely...
I'm a 75 year old guy who is pretty hard nosed about the world we live in. Your story made me cry. Thank you for a wonderful story wonderfully told.
Barry
I come to this site to read fuck stories. Your story had only one short episode of sex, and that was related in very a very sedate manner. BUT. Yours was a romantic story in the extreme. You write so well. I could not find a single error. Seems to me that Scott Fitzgerald had success with a novel called "Tender is the Night." I think your story rises to that level of tenderness. What a masterfully written tale. Hope you will write more (and maybe sneak in just a tad more sex).
One of the best stories on this whole site. It is so nice to be drawn into a story that incites interest without getting tawdry. The theme is magnificent - hence my title above. And a great ending. Encore please.
David 73 yrs old
A BEAUTIFUL STORY. WELL WORTH READING AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.
be brought to tears by a story in Literotica. Thank you for a wonderful journey.
This tale of a beautiful, sensual woman and a young man is so so wounderfully written it should be expanded to a novel. I do so hope to see more from this writer. I can only say thank you ever so much for this novella.
It doesn't matter how many times that I have read this story, the one shining value that comes through is quality! This is a tender story where the love making(never could it be described as sex!) helps with the story telling, not dominate it.
And no matter how often it is read, Laura's final letter to Terry always brings a tear.
Truly a wonderful and touching piece of literature. Thank you!
Thanks for another interesting and touching story. I love the way you develop the characters. It makes me feel like I know them.
Likely one of the best stories I have read here. As with many readers, I came to this site to ecape and was instead moved to tears. Superb writing.
I just let the tears roll as I read this beautiful story.
I have not read anything written with such passion and insight in a very long time. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this and am now going looking for more of your work. Thank you for writing this, I have read it at a time in my life when I needed to read something like this.
This is my favorite story on the site and I come back to it from time to time. It moves me to tears every single time. Congratulations. You've created a true masterpiece of love, my friend.
Wonderful to read a proper story with plot development. I felt I knew Laura and Terry so when they got to the sexual scene I cared. There is a place for quick and dirty, but there will always be time for this too.
Now you're making me want to find me a Laura right now....#awesome
Reading my first Literotica story was a million smiles jackpot. Truly enjoyable!
Thanks.
The first time I read this, I got tears in my eyes. Now after reading it for the umpteen time it is STILL as beautiful as it was the first time & yes I STILL get tears in my eyes when I read it.
It is a beautifully written piece, I would like to see more
...but I did this time. Lovely, lovely writing. Thank you.
One of the most beautiful stories I have read! 10 stars in a maximum of 5!!!
I read this masterpiece long time ago and I loved it.
From time to time I remind it, but today I happened to find it and couldn't resist to read every word of this touching story again.
This is not pornography! This is a story of love and kindness, where sex occurs as naturally as life itself.
Thank you Ronde for sharing your creativity and talent with us.
Good to see a story thats isnt all sex...the romance, the feeling behind it was wonderful.
Dammit! This is about the 10th time I've read this since I saw it on a top list last year & my eyes still get wet. I had read many a stroke story on Literotica, enjoyed them all for the most part; but they never really spoke to me in a way that said "hey, why don't you give this a try?" And then I read this story: almost 10K words, long well-crafted buildup painting the characters with words, a lone sex scene that doesn't start until the end of the 1st page. Nice plot turning metaphor of his getting the tractor fixed & working again, then an O. Henry twist & a bittersweet ending. Brilliant. [my 1st story went out to an editor this week]
This is, by far, one of the most touching stories I have read on here. I am not a man of emotion, but this story brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for the wonderful experience! More power to your pen!
I've read many stories on this site over the years. This one tops them all. Bravo.
What a beautiful story, and well told. You brought tears to my eyes.
...because I'm sure they're all the same as mine. This is an unbelievably awesome story, and I cried for the last page and a half. Five stars doesn't do it anywhere near justice - it would be in the top three or four stories that I've read here.
yep,, same as the other commenters I to cried. Great Job ,,, very well told and grammatically sound. and not too much sex detail to ruin the character of Laura ,, Thanks for the story.
this has to be one of the best works that I have ever read on this site.
This has to be the best story on Lit that I've ever read. Thank you for sharing it with us.
It is obvious you've spent some time in a vinyard & in the arms of a lucky loving woman. Terrific!
This is a beautiful story and the sex input fits neatly into place. I think this could be expanded into an excellent novel.
I am still crying. There really are no words to describe how wonderful this story is. I wish there were more than 5 stars, because I have given other stories 5 stars in the past and this one is so much better.
An excellent and well written story, the absolute best I have seen on Literotica.
And at 67 it brought a tear to my eye and a warm smile to my heart.
Thanks.
I can add nothing to the comments left by the person ahead of me except that I am a grumpy 70 year old retired sailor who found that he can still cry.
"Sailor61"
I love to reread some of the better stories. This is a top rated one. Thank you for it and please write more so I can keep up with your family now