THERE YOU WERE, ALL ALONG, QUIETLY HELPING, LIVING IN THE MOST SUBLIME WAY, FAITHFUL, LOVING, KIND, TRAINING UP CHILDREN, BEFRIENDING THE HELPLESS, LOVING YOUR SPOUSE WITH THE DEEP SEEDED DEVOTION ONLY FEW SEEM TO HAVE. I NEVER KNEW WHAT A GEM WAS RIGHT BESIDE ME. I LIVED FOR YEARS IN QUIETNESS AND SOLITARY STILLNESS. PRAYING, ASKING GOD FOR HELP. SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER THESE OLD DISEASED BONES BUT NOT TIED IN A MATRIMONIAL UNION. MY ANSWERED PRAYER; BY E. S. WARYNICK; A FRIEND WHO COULD REACH OUT AND HELP MAKE THE WORLD NOT SO COLD, NOT SO SOLITARY. THEN ONE DAY, THERE YOU WERE. AN ANSWERED PRAYER, A HAND TO HELP, A FAITHFUL FRIEND WHO THROUGH LOTS OF LAUGHTER HELPS ME TO FEEL THAT THIS CRAZY WORLD ISN'T AS BAD AS IT SEEMS TO BE. THANK YOU GOD, THANK YOU MY FRIEND, NEIGHBORS MATTER, KINDNESS MATTERS, FRIENDSHIP HEALS WOUNDS THAT WE BOTH HAVE SUFFERED. MAY I BE AS MUCH A HEALING FRIEND TO YOU, AS YOU ARE TO ME. I HOPE SO BECAUSE THEN.... MY PRAYER WILL BE COMPLETE.