All Comments on 'Charity Begins Next Door'

Not sure how many times that I have read it. Two lost souls find each other . You never know where you will find love sometimes it just have to bite you in the lip.( lol) great story and in my favorites.

Ron

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You are a very talented storyteller. Please continute to write!

Gosh! What a story! I had not expected such a heart tugging story on this page. I had tears flowing down and still would not stop reading. So many emotions were flying through my mind. I still have tears flowing down... this time accompanied with a smile. Thank you for this wonderful story.

Well mate, like a couple of others I have still got tears running over my cheeks. Really a bitter sweet yarn with a wonderful ending. This is a really great effort in my humble opinion. I hope you will be able to keep us well entertained for years to come. The 'busybody" next door was a great caracter too.

I found myself crying more than a few times rereading this.

If you knew me you'd know I have the emotional range of a brick. Any form of media that can get me to cry is extraordinary. Kudos .

Bitter and sweet just like life. Keep writing please.

I Came. I Cried. I Came Again.

I have a hate/love relationship with stories like this one. I hate the sadness but love the loving! Please continue sharing your wonderful writing talent!

Wow, you have packed so much into this story, it still brings tears to my eyes.

From cruel and sad via humor and erotic to hopefull and romantic.

This is Chritmas.

I've read a lot of good stories between & it still ranks as no.2.

Thank you for that amazing story. Please keep sharing your wonderful gift.

Not expecting what happened from the title. Could not stop reading. Great work.

2nd time I read this story. It's still wonderful still made me cry. Thank you so much.

It still gets me.

Thank you.

It was a joy to read and experience. You fleshed out the characters well and I look foreward to your newer

stories

to give help to the neighbors, the spirits take over and change every ones environment, TK U MLJ LV NV

This is now the third story in row where tears are running down my cheeks. :-))

what a great story and nicely told - thanks!

saved this one for the Holiday competition. Great story. thanks for sharing.

Better say a big TAHNK YOU.

Bitter-sweet, the sex was just the candy....

Love you

Carlo from Monza, Italy

Just that I have not looked at the Romance category at all during the last ten plus years of periodically looking for some thrills in Literotica. And how amazing it is to be so moved by your story.

I think I will spend far more time in the Romance category from now on.

Wonderful story. Thanks.

I cried. So well written. You can write another movie like Titanic

Well done. Very hard to find a story so well written. You have a gift. I hope you continue to write. Interesting place to start...no?

5 Stars.

Such a heartfelt, masterfully written story. I thank you for bringing my emotions to the point of very real tears and joy through your wonderful writing. Thank you!!!

Over the last 50 years, I cannot remember reading a better story! Absolutely amazing! This story could easily be the foundation for a Hallmark channel movie.

I was in tears meanwhile I was reading the tale.

It is was great, fulfill of controversial feelings, but absolutely lovely.

5* for you, and waiting more stories that this one.

Great Job.

This story touched me so much. Christmas is a difficult time for me so reading this story was emotional. I read through tears but ended up smiling while crying. I wish I could rate higher that 5 stars. Bravo!!!

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G is not adequate.

It even cured my chronic dry eyes. :-)

This is the best story I read full of emotion and nicely written sex.

Thanks

I wish that you'd added a bit more about them, because it ended too abruptly.

I have never left a comment here before, but this left me feel compelled to do so. As others have said, I only wish that I could give you more than 5 stars.

Thank you, and God Bless

I have come across this story so many times before but never felt the urge to read it. Now, after reading it I have realized why it has amassed so many comments. The story is just marvelous and the writer a genius! Thank you for sharing this one. But don't curse God as He is never wrong! Thank you, again.

Tex - Always a good read!

asianToy

Never thought I'd find a story like this one here.

A very touching and realistic narration how a personal loss can affect every aspect of our life. However if we look hard enough there is always a light at the end of the long dark tunnel.

There was much care in the way you wrote this tale. The door-painting scene was just perfect.

This one pulled feelings out of me that I didn't remember I had.

I needed that. Thank you. People you've never met have been totally slammed by your writing.

Loved your story i think it was very well written. Only wish I had, had, a neighbor like Cathy. No, I didn´t have anyone. But now I have found a friend and neighbor that gets me through the day and nights in you guys at Literotica I don´t feel alone anymore. Thank you.

I guess this is the 4th or 5th time I've read this in the last year and it never fails to bring the pain right up to the surface. There must be something good in this story to get me coming back time and again. It is almost 7 years since I lost her. But though I am old, I won't give up hope of a 'Sandy' out there for me.

Beautiful

Five Stars and one of the few stories on my favorite list.

Harry in VA's Witness

. . .so did the man across the backyards. Guess they painted a gold star on each of the rentals. Nice touch throughout the story and so real life.

The emotion in this story is very strong. I couldn't stop crying at times. Especially during the unwrapping the presents part.

Couldn't stop the tears it was so touching and felt from the heart and not rushed. Love the ending of two broken families getting together and mending each others hearts.

What a wonderful writer you are, heartwarming and exciting at the same time

Only one unanswered question. What pushed Sandy's first husband to commit suicide? My first thought was that he either knew or suspected Sandy was cheating on him. I hate having that thought hanging over me after an otherwise marvelously written story.

A well written heartwarming story. You have a gift! Your story brings hope and joy. One can only wish that you experience the wonder you give the reader.

This ranks right up there in my top 5 in no particular order!

I love this site and the stories here, but this is, by far the most emotionally amazing story I have read here. This story is amazing. You showed that there can be a story with true depth of meaning. Thank you. Very well written.

Geez ... I've been crying since page 3 !!! What s story !

Dam onions. lol.

How about a version from her perspective?

Beautiful, simply / absolutely *beautiful*. A *MAGNIFICENT* & *incredible* story.

Happened upon this at Christmas 2016. What a surprise! So many facets of selfless giving. While most stories simply go for lust, this one engages passion. You didn't pull any punches and you didn't let us down with cheap sex. A wonderful story that lets the reader root for the characters and reflect on our own lives.

Very few stories touch me on a deep emotional level, but this one surely succeeded in spades. As another poster suggested, I must have onions nearby, because my eyes are watery. Truly heart wrenching as he describes his daughters... cuts to the bone to think about it, being a parent myself. Love this story! Easy 5*

But your story got me going - what a big, sad, angry, sexy piece of writing!

MMMMMMM what a tear jerker that is, well written and paced saved the sexy bits to quite late in the story, but it worked.

TEARJERKER, EXCELLENT WRI TING.

Beautiful... thank you.

Not only a great story teller, but what an imagination. The characters were for the most part living and real. Every sentence, each emotion, the situation, the perceptions, made me think the author actually endured this. I trust this is not the case, and that his understanding of God has broadened...considerably. What God promises to all? Romans 10:18 "The sufferings of this present world are not to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed in us". In the end, as even this worldly story attests, it will all be clear, and worth it. Great job!

This story can stand on its own without the graphic sex, not that the sex wasn't good. But you should consider softening up the sex scene and submit it for publication of a short story. It was a wonderful story. I'll need to read your others

I go through this every year since my wife passed away.. still get together with her family & my son , but there still a sadness with her missing. been almost 6 yrs now but seems as though it was this year. read this 1 every year at Christmas & find a couple of people that come together at a wonderful time & put meaning back into it.

Yeah, I agree with one of the commenters who suggested you soften the sex scene and publish elsewhere. I would have enjoyed it without the sex.

What a beautiful story. I can't believe this caliber of plot is on literotcia just like the other readers.

You should sell this for a movie

First time to shed tears on Literotica

Damn it

Context and content, attention to detail ... all smartly captured.

Someone must be slicing onions nearby. My eyes haven't teared up this much in years.

Best story I've read on this site.

Just wow, that was one exceptionally heart griping story thank you so much

This story really touched me....oftentimes I think about how cruel life can be...if I lost my kids I don't know what I'd do...reading this story let me know I'd probably be a lil bitter like the main character. Sometimes in buying the gifts, we forget the most important thing is being able to spend time with our kids, friends, families and loved ones. I'm glad he was able to find love again. Maybe there is still hope and I will too. Thanks for sharing. Loved it! My most favorite story !!!

Great story ! Scary to think about the realm of life and it's tragedies.

this one was another winner, thanks for sharing, and I went thru a few tissues reading it, that was awesome.

3rd time to read this story. And like a previous poster, someone is cutting onions nearby.

Loved it with your mix of emotions, good humor, friends and romance.

First of all, I agree with those who found her refusal to accept much needed help puzzling, even if she did it graciously, which she didn't.

I also found it a little puzzling when he came over with the gifts that she was wearing so little under the robe. Unless she was planning, or least thinking about, seducing him, wouldn’t she have more on under the robe, if not wearing clothes?

But still wonderful!

I honestly cried a lot while reading this

Good mix of emotions. Provided they include all of the 'sleepover', I could see this as a movie, I would want to see. And yes I did weep, but as I identify as as a Celt and male this is accepted, as warriors were allowed to express emotions before the arrival of mono deity religions!

This was great to read start to finish.

5* easy!

maybe u will improve with age

REALLY?

Best. Story. EVER. Just sayin'. Anyone who disagrees with me is the Grinch. Or Ebenezzer Scrooge, Don't make me sic Carol Kane and her flying toaster on ya.

Mutter, grumble, gripe...

Silly people who have clearly NEVER lost anything nor anyone precious to them.

3????? Really?

Oh my. This one tugged at the heart strings. I don't think I could have made it through the reading if I hadn't kept reminding myself that it's just a story... a story of sorrow that strikes the world every day, of people the likes of which you walk by on your way to work and just don't know it yet...hold on I need a minute [sniff, sniff] OK. So this one hit home for me a little and I loved it.

My only gripe is I don't like it when people tell you others have it worse but, I adored the fact that it got him looking outside himself. I know it's not easy but helping and caring for others really is the best way out of a funk.

Thank you for sharing this with us,

DJ

Truly Outstanding.

It has been over 10 years now since one of my daughters and one of my second wife's daughters passed (one 37 years from cancer, one 28 from auto accident). I think I cried about every 10th paragraph reading this. Loved, loved, loved your story.

5 Stars of heartbreak and joy.

Such a good story. Life can be so hard.

Gotta go find the Kleenex now. Thank you for that story. I like the sad/happy ones.

5 stars for you

the only way to be free from sorrow and be healed from pain is to be ready to forget self and help others solve their problems. self centeredness is a great reason people commit suicide.

this is a great story, I love it.

I never expected to read something like this on Literotica. What a wonderful story and I agree eyes filled with tears and I'm a late middle aged guy.

Great job!

I'm an old fart, but this story kept me in tears for most of the time I was reading it. You've got a gift for writing and pulling at heart strings. Please keep the stories coming. All your fans agree.

keep reading this story? I love it, thanks for sharing....bill

This was well written, only a few very minor mistakes. But the story was more than worth the read. There's not very many stories that can make me tear up, and jerk off, in the same story.

I'm a little embarrassed being a 50yo man that it brought a tear or two.

I'm 60 and it brought tears to my eyes.

make typing this comment difficult, but I just want to say that I loved the story.

So sad but so well resolved. Thanks.

A great story with a wonderful mix of emotions, sex, and love. I admit it also had me in tears but well worth it. Thank you.

I'm hard as nails I am..!!!

You Kay that's the lying out of the way. Had me in tears.!!!! :-/

Good story though...!!