Feb 14, 2007 10:53 pm US/Central
Widower Continues To Write Love Letters To Wife
by Tiani Jones
DALLAS (CBS 11 News) ―
If you don't believe in true love, you may after hearing John Boardman's story. He continues to write his sweetheart love letters, even tough she has no way of reading them.
"The day I saw her, I fell in love," Boardman said. "Years ago I kissed her not knowing whether or not she was going to slap me, kick me or kiss me back." She kissed him back, and the rest is history. Some may call it the ultimate love story.
In a letter published in Tuesday's Dallas Morning News, Boardman writes, "People ask, 'What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?' You loving me was and is the best accomplishment I have had." The title of the piece is, "A Love Letter To Lucyna From Johnny." Boardman said, "The love is there, and I don't care who reads it."
"From the day I met her, and until this day, I have never thought that any woman in this entire world was as beautiful, as sexy, as intelligent as she was," Boardman said. "Men say, 'You're the most beautiful woman I've ever met.' When I said it, I meant it. She didn't believe me."
Boardman has written several love letters to his wife in the paper. Many of them are probably overlooked, because he pours out his heart in the obituary section. "She was gone, and that was the most horrible, horrible day of my life," he said.
John and Lucyna dated for 15 years before they married. They shared 15 more years together before she died. His proud, polished wife with an English accent died suddenly in her sleep in the summer of 2004. "She was 58, and she was as beautiful as the day I met her," he said. "I don't know why she chose me, but she did… She gave me a wonderful life."
John said his letters are expressions of love he'd wished he'd shown while his wife was alive. "God gave me heaven here; he really did," Boardman said. "I'm a firm believer that I'll see her again, and that's what keeps me going."
They also represent songs he could have sung to her, "You're real as real can be and my every fantasy; the only love that I've ever had," he wrote in his letter. "My love forever, Johnny."
(CBS 11 News)
