{"id":5556,"date":"2025-07-21T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:14:06","slug":"my-grandma-wore-black-to-a-family-wedding-and-insisted-on-posing-with-both-of-her-husbands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=5556","title":{"rendered":"My grandma wore black to a family wedding\u2014and insisted on posing with \u201cboth of her husbands.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"84\" data-end=\"266\">At a family event, Grandma posed between two men: Grandpa Will, her husband of 50 years, and a stranger holding her hand. When I asked, she said, <em data-start=\"230\" data-end=\"264\">\u201cThat\u2019s Thomas\u2014my first fianc\u00e9.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"268\" data-end=\"465\">She\u2019d been engaged before Will, but Thomas was drafted to Vietnam and went missing. She thought he\u2019d died. Decades later, he walked into a bookstore\u2014still searching, still carrying her old letters.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"467\" data-end=\"554\">Will knew. He welcomed Thomas, because love, to him, meant putting her happiness first.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"556\" data-end=\"710\">Over time, Thomas became part of our lives. Quietly. Respectfully. When asked to choose, Grandma said, <em data-start=\"659\" data-end=\"710\">\u201cI\u2019m not choosing. Some love doesn\u2019t ask you to.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"712\" data-end=\"790\">In her scrapbook, she placed both stories side by side. Underneath, she wrote:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"792\" data-end=\"819\"><strong data-start=\"792\" data-end=\"819\">\u201cTwo lives. One heart.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"821\" data-end=\"875\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Sometimes, love isn\u2019t either-or. Sometimes, it\u2019s both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; At a family event, Grandma posed between two men: Grandpa Will, her husband of 50 years, and a stranger holding her hand. When I asked, she said, \u201cThat\u2019s Thomas\u2014my first fianc\u00e9.\u201d She\u2019d been engaged before Will, but Thomas was drafted to Vietnam and went missing. She thought he\u2019d died. Decades later, he walked &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5558,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions\/5558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}