Fairytale romances are even better in real life

One day of my senior year of high school I was sitting in my Anatomy class and we got seat changes. I ended up in the back, next to this girl named Mariah. I had always known who she was, and we were nice to each other but we didn't know each other too well bc we hadn't had any classes together since like, Elem School. Over the course of the class I am delighted to say that I became more and more pleased with our seating arrangement, and one day Mariah told me a story I have never forgotten. Ehm. It is, as I recall, this....

      Mariah's Grandmother lived in Europe during WWII, I think even in Germany. She had to work in a forced labor camp, but she was a supertrooper and survived! After the war was over and Europe was re-building itself, she ended up living with this nice family who had a farm. Onee day this American soldier was driving his little tank along and knocked over their fence!

      Mariah's Grandmother went out and huffily said to the strapping young Yank, "You know you're going to have to fix that don't you?"

      To which he flashed a cocky grin and said....

"Only if you go on a date with me."

      Mariah's Grandmother was quite taken aback. Who did this handsome man think he was? He had just knocked over her fence! And he expected her to go on a date with him? Seeing her indignant look, he quickly threw in a roguish wink for good measure, and so of course she had to say yes. And then they fell passionately in love and got married!

I love this story. I have told it so many times haha :) Because it is just so beautiful! I mean, the setting is Germany, post-WWII. That is nottt a happy time, and yet love was found! It is so wonderful!

I hope that I have a love story that is so spectacular that my granddaughter will tell it to the girl sitting next to her in her Anatomy class and then she will go tell the world of it :) Because love isss something that should be proclaimed from the rooftops, and it is so, soo amazing that love stories like this exist, because that, my friends, that means that reality can be so, soo much better than any movie :)

Much as I hate to admit it....

I am a hopeless romantic.

I am serious. I realized this just now actually, when I listened to "I'll be your hero" that is a song in some Disney movie that I have never seen and never had any intention of seeing until six minutes ago when I heard this song for the first time in just about a year. Wow that was a lot of words. Ehm. Basically hearing this song made me remember that I happen to be in love with Sterling Knight.

IS HE NOT BEAUTIFUL?!

Like, ohmigosh how wonderful would it be if there was this beautiful boy who was suchhh a jerk and you hated him and it was kinda like Elizabeth and Darcy-esque and then one day you just like, yelled at him and slapped him or smashed a still-wet painting on his head or something and thennn ran out but you were so mad that you didn't see where you were going and this car almost hits you but it doesn't because he SAVES you? But you declare (after the shock has worn off) that just because he saved your life doesn't mean he isnt a jerk. Because he is. And you go out to lunch with your girlfriends and they all say with assuredly that he is madly in love with you but you don't want to believe them because he's a jerk right? And then you slouch home and plop yourself onto your couch with your Ben&Jerry's and watch some TV and its like, some show that you randomly turned to and its actually the news and he's there and it shows him saving your life and he is interviewed later but he is obviously distracted bc he keeps looking over his shoulder to make sure the paramedics are treating your unconscious self with care but then once you are safely inside the ambulance he faces the camera and says something like, "look, I did what any fool in love would do." and then runs over and climbs into the ambulance with you and insists to the hospital people that he cover the bill because secretly HE IS A PRINCE?! But he doesn't want anyone and esp you to know and then he stayed next to your bed until you woke up from your 2-hour coma?? And once he saw your eyelashes fluttering open he hurried away?? And then you're sitting there like, ohmigosh what have I done? And you hurry into the office the next day and are like, "where's Sterling?!" And the catty receptionist that always liked him and therefore hated you informs you smugly that he has gone back to the England because that's what he's the prince of and you're like, NO! and hurry to the airport and run through security and leap over barriers and such until you finally see him ABOUT TO BOARD THE PLANE and then you're like, "Sterling!" and he turns and he is just SO BEAUTIFUL and he's like, "Yes?" and you're like, "don't leave!" and hes like, "why not? there's nothing for me here." and you're like, "no! you're wrong!" and hes like, "whaaaatt??" and you swallow bc you're really nervous about rejection but then you push those feelings aside and are like, "because! I love you too!" and then it's like, slow-mo but not really bc it's real life but it feeellllsss like slow-mo bc you don't know what he's gonna do but then!! you guys kiss and get married and you become a princess and your husband is THIS GUY??!?!?!! ---->

And yes, I did just come up with that off the top of my head. That is the power of Sterling Knight and these ah-mazing lyrics to that wonderful song. LISTEN TO IT.

I'm no superman

I can't take your hand

And fly you anywhere

You wanna go, yeah

I can't read your mind

Like a billboard sign

And tell you everything

You wanna hear but

I'll be your hero

I, I can be everything you need

If you're the one for me

Like gravity, I'll be unstoppable

I, yeah I believe in destiny

I may be an ordinary guy with heart and soul

But if you're the one for me

Then I'll be your hero

(Could you be the one [x3]for me)

Then I'll be your hero

(Could you be the one [x3]for me)

Then I'll be your hero

Searching high and low

Trying every road

If I see your face

I'll barley know, yeah

I put my trust in fate

If you will come my way

And if it's right

It's undeniable yeah

I'll be your hero

I, I can be everything you need

If you're the one for me

Like gravity, I'll be unstoppable

I, yeah I believe in destiny

I may be an ordinary guy with heart and soul

But if you're the one for me

Then I'll be your hero

(Could you be the one [x3]for me)

I'll be your hero

(Could you be the one [x3]for me)

I'll be your hero

So incredible

Some kind of miracle

And when it's meant to be

I'll become a hero-o

So I'll wait, wait

Wait, wait for you

Yeah I'll be your hero

I, I can be everything you need

If you're the one for me

Like gravity, I'll be unstoppable

(Be unstoppable)

I, yeah I believe in destiny

I may be an ordinary guy with heart and soul

But if you're the one for me

Then I'll be your hero

(Could you be the one [x3]for me)

Then I'll be your hero

(Could you be the one [x3]for me)

Then I'll be your hero