A good friend of mine once told me, in his description of Narelle, “John, God has given you a bouquet of flowers.” Perfectly put.

Being well over 50,when I’d met her, of course there had many other romances and relationships in my life- including my 13 year marriage to Margo. In a sense, it seemed as though parts of my soul were scattered through the earth and throughout my past.

Narelle, knowing this about me, sometimes musing on the over 150 love songs (and “lack of love” songs) I’d written through the years, would sometimes ask where her love song was.

It was on our 5th year anniversary, when she was on a trip with her daughter, that I sat at my key board and began to realize that she was that song- and that “every piece of my soul” had finally and fully migrated home to her.