INTRODUCTION
Snapshots are visual memories of our life
Early snapshots from the 1970’s, taken by a Kodak and Polaroid camera, the latest technology of the seventies, tell the exciting life changes two people were about to experience. Today in the 21st century, these pictures have faded and yellowed from time, yet these 40-year-old pictures will always be colorful and vivid of times gone by in history.
Against All Odds plots a couple who fall in Love but are mysteriously separated in 1958 through no fault of their own. Fifteen years later with four-hundred-fifty miles separating them, there is in an extraordinary reconnection without the assistance of Google. Never expecting to find each other again, they are miraculously reunited, and their feelings rekindled. With an unplanned kiss, their hearts awoke to a devoted love that is rare outside of dreams. With the inspiration of love melodies, the real passion was expressed in over two-hundred-fifty beautiful love letters chronicling their 7-month courtship. That correspondence supplied information to write their special ‘Love Story’ 43 years later.
In 1973, a pity party and a quick trip to Houston became a catalyst for a crazy phone call that renewed a fifteen-year relationship and began the “rest of the story.” In May these two old friends met to have dinner, reminisce and retrace the path of a past relationship but an unplanned event took the dinner date to a different level. It brought together a prior love that changed the present and future and erased the hurts of the past. In this book, you will be transported back in time to ‘fill in the blanks’ for one of the most incredible stories of true love ever written.
Going Against the Odds of the challenges of earlier marriages, it was a gamble with their future, but a love for God and each other paid unmeasured dividends. Misunderstanding and young, immature actions along with a delayed proposal and letter of explanation returned by the post office gave a different outcome from the initially planned path.
From the beginning of their new relationship, Odis was resolute in his desire and determination to make Suzie his wife and take care of her daughter. He was determined to not let her love slip through his fingers again. Becoming a real life “Tyler Bunch,” the love and struggles of blending the hurts and emotions of humans reveal the reality of how communication, devotion and God’s love can unite a couple in a Perfect Love.
