All Comments on 'A Lifetime of Valentines'

baad... grammar!

Oh man.

He tells that he was a soldier in the Korean War, but a child in the Second World War? That is chronologically puzzling me, since there were just five years between these two wars.

💯👍🤷😕😥😢góod story... Lost mine at home... Long illness.. painful one... Góod story... 🤷🙋🙋✝️🛐

Who was Elli? Played such a vital part in the story yet we know nothing about her. Very moving, Deserves more than 5*. Thank you.

More than solid, more than 5. So much of depth in the story

Acck! Who is Elli? I was sure she was Elizabeth's ghost, helping her father through this trial. The the story ended.

BTW, great story well written. ¹

WOW

Touching, loving, adorable & such a piece of art. Can't put it in words how much it moved me. You deserve much more than 5 for this. Such a emotionally fulfilling love story❤️

Loving, heart-warming, and heart-wrenching... loved it!!

Truly wonderful storytelling. Touching, and felt so authentic. I admit to crying several times, but it was wonderful at the same time. I feel like I'm not so alone, now, in feeling deep romantic devotion for my wife. So many other stories on this site lack any depth and only appeal to our baser urges. This story was a breath of fresh air that warmed my heart like a prairie chinook in Spring. I finished this story feeling sentimental but more satisfied with the time spent reading than I have in ages. Thank you, thank you, JoeDreamer, for doing mankind such a service with your writing.

P. S. I wish gifted creative writers like you could have an editor. I'm an incorrigible stickler so grammar/typo things distract me, and there were a tiny few of them, if we're being honest. With one editorial pass this would be professional quality, and I think your readers would be willing to pay you. Seriously.

This was a great story, emotional but it was good, thank you for writing it

Truly a great and emotional story of what it is to have one and only for your lifetime . Thank you so much for this wonderful story .

Sad in the end but truly beautiful. Kudos!

This was the most loving and heart wrenching story I’ve ever read in my entire life. If this was a movie, I’d easily watch it over and over, and I’d still cry every time it came to and end. This is absolutely my favorite love story I’ve ever read.

5 Stars is not enough. Great story!!!

An absolutely brilliant story

So why am I sitting here crying - Perhaps because I have lost both my Mother and Wife to cancer.

5*s duly awarded.

10/10

This is why there should be a special ten star rating.

This story touched my life in so many ways...

Thank you. 5+++ stars is not enough for your excellent work.

Thank you for writing such a lovely story!! Very beautifully written and I had tears in my eyes multiple times while reading this wonderful story.

Not what I expected from Literotica, but I’m glad I got to read this one. Well done!

Bill S.

Yes! Thank you

Losing someone you truly love to Cancer is just so sad. This a well written story that is truly a tear jerker. 5 stars

Yes I was weeping by the end of this truely excellent story, like everyone else. Describing deep-seated love, the story is so well written, has great character development, glows with excellent dialogue. I loved the references to historical events; they brought back memories of my living through them. As my wonderful wife and I approach our 57th anniversary (and I my 80th birthday), we realize that one or the other of us will find ourselves in the same situation in the not-so-distant future.... Thanks for the story! J.

Great story.

This has to be the best story on this site.

This one hits home.

splendid tear jerker!

my wife & I was married on Valentines day. brings back memories of our lives together. she was sitting up laughing & the next minute she was gone .she was all ways fearful lingering like her dad did. all ways said that wasn't living.

Thank you for such a touching tale of true love. Well done!

Wonderful story full of heart felt fealings and emotional heart break. Brovo

That being said, I don't think I could read it over as I do with some of my favorites, just way too sad. It takes quite a bit to make me cry.

A tour de force for Valentine's Day.

Very well told story. Hits all the right notes.

Nobody makes me cry. I don't like this author one bit for doing that to me. God, I hate crying.

Thank you for your hard work, wishing you a very good holiday season.

NorthPacific

Beautiful! Thanks!

You should collect your romance stories in one volume and self publish.

There is a definite market.

Yes, if Madeleine is Maddie

then - Elizabeth is Ellie.

At least for me she is

Thanks JoeDreamer for a heart tugging love story

looking forward to the movie

Is elli the nurse supposed to be representation of John's third child?

Really good story that felt like you weren't sure how to end it.

it's a good thing I can type without looking at the keyboard because I can't see right now

when there is no dnr order.....when all the nurses and doc rushed into the room CPR was started immediately....not a pretty scene this story trys to portray...definately NOT a peaceful ending. living will mean nothing...there HAS to e a doctors order for DNR EVERYTIME a patient enters the hospitalperiod

Can't believe that I am sitting here with tears running down my face! Beautiful story, well written and so emotional! Thank you

Such s happy and also dad story. Really enjoyed it. Thanks very much.

:-)

Being married for forty six years I understand the feelings he had for his wife.

I hate that I can feel the loss of his wife. Being older and with medical problems

I wonder if my wife or I will be the one alone at the end. I think I would die soon

after her if she went first. good tale to bad more people do not find the

happiness love can bring to a devoted marriage.

there is not much to say other than it is a wonderful story

filled with love and tears

thank you

write more

I haven't cried like this in a very long time. This story is absolutely BEAUTIFUL.

I'm so goddamn tired of pain and cancer.Morphine just washes everything away that makes you yourself even before it touches the pain. Fuck You.

Well done. I loved it.

You glorious bastard. This was arguably the best short story I have ever read. The tears started somewhere in the first few paragraphs and continued unabated pretty much throughout the rest of the story. Of course I knew how it would end. But the writing and characters were so compelling I could not wait to see what happened next. I can't believe this didn't win the top spot. You wuz robbed!

Somewhere in the comments I saw reference to a movie. Get an agent. Make a pitch. This is so much better than 99.5% of the crap on the big screen. Of course I am thinking of me, not you. You would make enough from that movie to allow you to indulge us, er, yourself writing for Lit instead of working on that pesky ol' job...

Well done, my friend. This is only the second of your stories I have read. I can't wait to get through the whole library of your works to see how you did on the rest of them.

I balled and balled.

i dont usually like these type of stories where one of them dues, but this was gorgeous

I Loved it. I just keep crying. Excellent work. Xx

Elli = Ellizabeth

Many tears were shed to this story. Simply beautiful. :)

The story was unbelievable.. Except for the sad ending the story was totally worth a read and amazingly beautiful.. Thanks a lot..

A fantastic story. I have read it 3 or 4 times over the last couple of years and it gets to me each time.

A real brilliant work,reminds of movie notebook but so much more and romantic,one of the best works of romance.

OMG! That had to be one of the most romantic and touching stories I have ever read on this site. I am still pouring tears because of how moved I was by it. You write so beautifully and with such imagery that you feel like you're watching a movie. It was simply amazing! Great Job!

This was brilliant, I can totally imagine this as a storyboard for a movie. Real excellent writing and imagination.

Incredible story, danielle steele has got nothing on you

One of the best pieces of literature i've read, it made me feel for him and made me cry. excellent work

This was one of the best. Depth, humor, love...wow. 6 out of 5 stars.

This is honestly the first story i've ever read that made me cry. You are a great writer.

This story is amazingly written. One of the best stories I've ever read, especially on here!

I read this story on a whim & it has sent shivers up my back. Your story is very well written & one which I can relate to all to well. My father in law succombed to cancer a year ago & he & my mother in law would have celebrated their 46th anniversary last month. He slipped away from us a day after the family had told him he could stop fighting & just let go. I really do hope my inlaws will be reunited in the future.... Thanks for sharing this wonderful, heartfelt story.

You are an amazing writer... I dont often leave comments but this story was so beautiful. Dont ever stop writing, you have a gift. Dont waste it xo

Even at the beginning of the story, when I already knew how it would end, I couldn’t stop reading this amazing love story. I had no trouble at all understanding why it was a winner. Thank you for sharing your gift with us. Maddie

Thank you for it Joe. Getting a bit close to home. We will have our 46th anniversary in 2 weeks and I can feel for the hubby. On our 45th I got her a huge vase with 45 roses in it. I hope we have some more and she goes first as I don't want her to be alone. Sorry to be a bit morbid. But I think I can understand love, Thanks for the write. Jim

I dont ever leave comments, but this story is crazy beautiful. This needs to be in the top 5, and on a better site than literotica... God damn this is scary good man. Be proud of urself

this is the first story at literotic that made my eyes wet in end, facing the reality of life that everyone has to go at the end of this life, leaving everything on this earth, what remains are MEMORIES. NICE HEARTY STORY

....I met him the day before Valentines Day, and this story reminds me of how beautiful that day was. Thanks!

:')

Tomorrow is our anniversary of 34 years to my first and only love of my life. May the Lord help us to enjoy many, many more beautiful years together.

You've got me so emotional over it, it was a fantastic story, I couldn't fight back the waterworks at the start and the end, well done.

Thank you for writing such a beautiful story . . . it really is a nice reminder of the richness that love can bring to a life. I hope I find my "John" some day.

That was honestly one of the sweetest, most beautiful, heart-rending stories I've ever read. I have a sneaking suspicion that some (or all) of it was based in real life, and if not, it's too bad- because although I'm sure it would be heartbreaking and soul-crushing to lose the love of your life that way, having loved someone so completely is a treasure most of us never experience; I hope that I will still be with my first valentine 47 years from now (2 years so far).

Thank you for putting so much into your story - was wonderful!!

Brought tears to my eyes, I loved it. I found I had a special connection to this story, because I have a terminal illness. As I was reading I wondered if someday my husband would be in this situation..

Thank you for the wonderful read.

Very nice, and nicely written. Thanks

One of the most touching stories I have read.

one of the best romantic stories iv read on literotica, i cried at the end.

just loved da story.. No words can ever express what i felt after reading it

and also the comments. The first story I've read here that has no adverse comments, never mind rude slagging off. Very well done. Just two points: I found her being a virgin a bit improbable! Don't bother reminding me that it's set in the 1950s as so was I. Second, I fell in love similarly, and parted similarly. The difference is that I never saw her again, married someone else and, 46 years later am still madly in love with my wife. I think it's safe to say that I got over my old girlfriend - but I sometimes wonder...

Absolutely Beautiful. The kind of story that moistens your eyes but still makes you glad you read it.

The only thing I dont think I like is you/life being so harsh on Bernie. Thats too much punishment for just being over-protective. Doesn't him sticking with Maddie for so many years without having sex something only a good guy would do? He wouldnt have, if he werent.

It might have helped if his indiscretions were brought to light or if his character was shady or an asshole.

Still, truly loved it. Deserves 5 stars.

Tc,

Div

I think this is one of the best stories I have read in a long time. It was beautiful and heartbreaking but that's what makes it so wonderful. Everyone should be as lucky to find a love like this.

Why stereotypical grandfathers in rocking chairs say, "you whippersnappers, you don't know enough about life...", as someone who's not even twenty, here I am, crying my eyes out at 5am, because I wonder if I could ever be lucky enough to find true love like that.

This is a wonderful story it brought so many tears to my eyes. I loved the way it is written and made the characters seem so real. In this day and age it is nice to read a really heart felt story.

I can tell you have had a great love in your life. too!

Joe, Thanks for a wonderful, human story. As a ex soldier, married for 53 years I can identify with your hero except that I have thad the exceptional good luck to still have my Valentine

As they say, "Love conquers all." Your story is at the same time, tender, romantic, poignant, somewhat sad, yet uplifting. I'm glad you wrote it, and I'm glad I read it. It's a great story. Thanks.

That was so lovely. No wonder people have idealized visions of the 1950s. Can't imagine such a tale these days.

This is such an amazing story. Truly a story of a lifetime

Sometimes I don't think people truly understand the difference between loving someone and "being in love". Your story just explained it. Yours and Maddie is the type of love that I hope and pray for myself and my kids to have one day. Thank you for sharing such and inspirational story. It has been a blessing.

This is probably the first comment I am leaving on this site. I just finished reading this story, at 03:50. I was so absorbed. I can't remember when I started, but I am a slow reader, and I do sometimes go back to refer or re-read some passages. I haven't read any of your other stories, but I hope you continue writing.

The nurse was a mystery, which remained unsolved till the end.

This is absolutely the greatest story I've read on here or anywhere for that matter. Thank you.

By far the best story I've seen here. My lady of 25 years is still with me, happy and healthy, and this just makes me appreciate her even more.

A tru story of love and devotion. Your prose are fantastic. I love you as a storyteller. Please return to this site oftern with new stories.

A great story! Can't help but cry after reading your story - you see my wife also died of cancer, she was the love of my life. Maddie reminded me of my Evie. Thank you for the beautiful story.