Heart Beat Bloggers: 06/23/14

Monday, June 23, 2014

Jean and David

Jean lost her husband to cancer in 2006. When a friend suggested she would some day love again, she said, "I'm not interested. I already had the best.” Jean is now engaged to David, a divorcee. They are pictured above in their home in Nashua, NH.

Q. How did it feel when you realized you fell in love again?

A. I thought, “This is shocking, because I never thought it would happen again.” I remember a friend of mine saying, “Do you know you are in love with David?" And I said, “I am?” So I thought about it for a moment and I said, “Yeah, I guess I am. What a gift.”

Nashua, N.H.

HEART BEAT BLOGGERS

What’s love got to do with it? We think everything. Who hasn't seen a statuesque beauty making out with her pocket-sized beau and wondered "Just exactly how does that work?" As a writer/photographer team with eons of experience, we've interviewed all kinds of people from drag queens to prom kings, the wealthy to the weary - the beautiful and the belligerent. We weren't afraid to ask Hillary Clinton about empty-nest syndrome or a 911 widow about her last good bye. So we’ve given ourselves a year to walk up to people and ask them all those questions about love that we’ve always wanted to ask. Truth be told – we’re nosy. We love to hear about and talk about the L word. Don’t judge. We practice what we post. We've dated, cohabited, hooked up and hitched. We've had children. We've had fights. We've buried the hatchet and we've buried a spouse. Sometimes we’ve lost our way but we never lost the faith. And we’ve asked ourselves many of the questions we plan to ask others. We believe in the power and pathos of love in all its forms and in the next 12 months we plan to capture it in images and imagery. Have a question you’d like us to ask or that you’d like to ask us? Post them in comments.
- Stacy Milbouer & Kathy Seward MacKay