by DreamCloud
As I'm writing this tears are pouring down my cheeks. To say this powerful, emotional writen is the best I have ever read is an understatement.
That was a story worth reading! Probably one of the best I've come across. The erotica took a back seat to the love and emotions you conveyed. Beautifully written!
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4th time to read this story and each time I had tears running down my face... And again I had tears... What an emotional storyline....Powerful...Beautifully written... I love it... 5 Stars...
First time I have left a review. It was a great story and I will keep it in mind for the future.
Getting all teary-eyed and extreme sadness was not what I was expecting when I first started reading stuff on this website.
Excellent work. 5/5
"Getting all teary-eyed and extreme sadness was not what I was expecting when I first started reading "
Couldn't say it better myself. Tears down my cheeks.
Terrible that he died but heartwarming what had in his last months and left for the future
REad this many times. Ju make me cry bad dis time
too many wheels within wheels within wheels
A few years ago, I would have just said this was a well-written tear-jerker. Then in 2019, my wife was diagnosed with cancer, she survived. Only to have another cancer scare during the first year of the pandemic, more surgery survived again. But I see her declining almost every month a little more, so reading this now was like a pile driver on the emotions. You have a new fan here. RT
OK, I'm sorry, I have to get the tears off my keyboard before I can post my comment.
@DreamCloud, you wrote one of the most beautiful stories of love and loss I have read in Literotica. Thank you for the joy and sadness you wrote of our narrator and his battle with a tumor. This is the second or third time I read your story, and I love it more each time. So well done, I can't express the extent of how good it is.
DreamC you are wrong for this one. I cried, laughed, and cried some more. Marines don't cry Damn U! Once I started reading I could not stop. All the women in his family are remarkable. Thank you, but I hate u for making me cry LOL.
OMFG! That was incredible!! You are a magnificent writer. That really touched me to my soul. Thank you for sharing your gift!
As an ex Serviceman myself, I'm with Tonyusmc3051, we don't cry but I did, amazing, brilliant
That was brilliant and sweet, literally the only story on this site I've read that made me cry. I kept hoping for some miracle to save Todd but knew it was impossible. 5*
Amazing story. Brought me to tears. It reminds me that my life can be so much more than just my own. Thank you.
I cried so much, I feel that you made Todd a real person with his narration.
In a site where cheating tag is more popular than romance. This one hit different. It can make any grown man cry. What i can remember as my most emotionally spent time reading anything. This story is beyond erotica. This is beautiful as a poem. Love the ending letting sofia know that a man will be there who unlike her biological father, can love her the way she deserves.
I'm considered a tough old buzzard.... an old curmudgeon...... but this story brought tears to me. Not an easy task. Your main characters came across as very real.
This is by far the most moving story I have read. The sadness and joy that Todd and Lucia shared deeply moved me. I cried my eyes out. Thank you DreamCloud for this story. 5 stars but it deserves so many more than that.
Only one thing could have made this story better. Having Todd give Lucia a baby to love...
I'm sure that, with nearly a thousand comments, I don't have anything to say that hasn't been said. Just want you to know I appreciate you sharing this beautiful, believable, touching story. As a reader, I know it's a terrific piece when the author makes me identify with and care deeply about the characters, warts and all. This one gets at the heart of what it means to really love. That it happens to be on an erotica site makes it all the more special. There were lots of tears and lots of giggles along the journey. Just like life....
I'm a big hairy biker, been in more fights and situations than I care to remember. I still have the power in my fifties to scare people
But I have just read this for the second time and cried at the crafted story here.
Truely beautiful work , thank you for this
I'd give this five stars again if I could
This is probably my 100th time to read this story and my eyes still get moist..... wishing Todd recovered and lived happily ever after with Lucia.
Best story on Lit, None better. I'm 65, this reconnected with my Granny, Dad and Mom and their passing, in a good way. Their time in palliative care. My best was good enough. Joyfully sad. And, we live forever through those we touch and who they touch and so on and so on. So touch with love and grace. Thanks so much.
The most saddest but beautiful and romantic story. Even though it is my fifth reading, it's still moist my eyes. Thank you for such a brilliant story. Definitely a 5 star 🌟🌠🌟🌠🌟🌠🌟🌠🌟🌠🌟
This story should be published, well written and one I couldn't put down. Thanks for sharing your talent.
I don’t have the words, or the ability, to do justice to the praise this story deserves. All the praise has been right on the target.
A five and right on to my favorites so I can easily revisit it.
My wife would always curl up on the couch with a box of tissues to re-watch 'Love Story'. At the opening line, "What can you say about a young girl who dies?" she would start sobbing. I often wondered why she would be such a glutton for punishment. I just finished binge reading your "The Beach House", "The Mountain", and now "The Rehab." I'm wrung out, dehydrated... Getting in touch with your feminine side or self identifying as female HURTS so much. Don't know how you women do it full time. Who knew... besides yourself and Garth Brooks. In "The Dance", he sings of man at the emotional pinnacle of his life: dancing neath the stars with his one true love. He never thought she'd ever leave him, or that it would hurt so when she did. 'I could do without the pain, but then I'd have to do without... the dance'. I owe my ex-wife an apology, 18 years too late: "Honey, I'm so happy that you were my wife."
Anon56
Wow. This story really tore at the heartstrings. Thank you for crafting this masterpiece. It’s great to read something for a change, that is actually uplifting. 5 stars.
Another 5 for this one. I was sad to read the comments regarding this site and your stuff never again being seen again. You are a wonderful writer and I would so enjoy reading your stuff again. For what that's worth. Thanks.
This is one of the greatest love stories on this site! I have read it many times and tears come to my eyes near the ending. I think it
is similar to people losing a spouse or loved one and seeing them going downhill to death which finally ends the pain and suffering!
Great story with sad and happy ending. Baton Rouge Cajun Guy
My thanks to JmmJ5 for suggesting this story. This was one of the best of the thousands of stories I have read on this site.
What a story - definitely one of the best I have
read. I found myself chocked up as I got to the end, although I knew what was coming I still wasn’t prepared for it.
Wow, that was powerful. Had to wait for the tears to clear before I could comment. Lovely writing, well done. Thanks to Jmmj5 for recommending it.
Very few stories get to my heart. This was one that will never leave my heart. I was in tears by the end. Heartbreakingly beautiful
Stories this good both tear at the heart and heal it at the same time. I am an old man and have sometimes forgotten what has made life worth living. This...reminded me. Thank you for that.
Kudos on a tale well told.
As soon as I started this story I new I had read it before and new how it ended . But with such a great story that touches your heart how can you not read it multiple times . I hope to read it again in the next year and promise I will if given the opportunity such a way with words solid five .
Probably the best story I've read in the past several years. Especially since my wife died 3.5 years ago. We had been married for 43 years.
I was alright through the first five pages, but I had a real tough time reading pages six and seven through my tears. I cried for at least 10 minutes after finishing the story. Ten stars if I could.
I read the story for third or fourth time, and I still loved it and was tearing.
Like others, this was not the first time reading this wonderful story. And, like others, it was not the first time crying. I’ve spent a lot of money on tissues.
I love this story so much. This was without a doubt one of the most emotional stories I have had the privilege to read. I hope to be able to read it again in the future but I don’t know if I can handle it since it struck so close to home. Thank you for all your time and effort and the emotion you managed to pour into this. It is appreciated and will not be forgotten by me ever.
Artfully illustrated and genuinely lovely. How DreamCloud is able to capture all of this in a story is beyond me, but I am thankful that she did. Thank you for another moment of fresh air.
What a truly lovely and romantic story. I was expecting Lucia to be pregnant with Todd's child which would have been a nice ending.
I have never read a story that has made me cry before. A wonderful story 10/10
Damn onion ninjas popping up when you least expect.
Outstanding story, 10/10, will read again.
I. Hate. This. Story!!! (OK, not really)
Every time I read it, the tears flow.
I could never rate this story high enough.
You've torn the heart out of me. Such an incredable tale. You made me hurt more than my own divorce did. Creative and intense story very well told.
WOW
I really feel the love, the hurt of these characters. I knew what will happen and still feel all these emotions.
Thanks sharing this story with us
5 stars
I have just ugly cried the most ugly cry I think I have let out, thank you I needed it
Beautiful story
IO have read this story several times and yet I shed a lot of tears AGAIN.
Better to have loved and lost than to have not loved at all.Three years on and every day dawns a little brighter as the memories of love,tenderness and laughter overcome the darkness of a slow descent to loss.Miss you kitten.
Nailed it dude!
I started to read.. the long drawn out I have no shoulder to cry on lead to because no one offered me a shoulder. So I will just right a sucky story. List my shoulder.. best of luck.
This story came up in my recommended reading list and it didn't take long until I knew I had read it a couple years prior. Even knowing how the story ended, I had to read it again. The tears still came, just as they did the first time I read it. If any author can be proud of a story they have written, this is one that DreamCloud can be proud of. If I could give it another five stars I surly would. Thanks, again.