When I first met Laura, she was stunned that I had never seen any of what she called classic movies. Now to me classic movies where The Shawshank Redemption, or Leon, or Betty Blue and such like. Whereas her classic movies were The Goonies, Mrs Doubtfire and The Lion King.
So, one night we got a Chinese in and our favourite dessert of cookies broken up into ice cream and settled down to watch the audio-visual extravaganza that is The Lion King. As much as I liked the movie, I enjoyed the evening as a whole more. I remember it like it was yesterday. We sat in her bright, sunny living room in her little flat and she put up with my sarcastic comments throughout as long as I admitted that I actually liked the movie in the end.
Our taste in movies was just one of the many examples of how different we actually were. I was older and had different tastes in practically everything, a point I noted in my speech on our wedding day. As a couple you don't always have to be looking into each other's eyes trying to find common ground. It's more important, I said that day, to be facing the same direction as each other. Moving forward, side by side. There is a balance in our differences. To be honest Laura always brought more to the party than I did. She was the driving force, the brains of the unit. It was nice of her to let it appear that we were equals.
The Lion King always seemed to be there though. Laura had Aden watch it when he started actually watching movies all the way through and then she did the same with Hallie. At the beginning of the year, Hallie started singing "ahhhhh zabenya" as an answer to everything.
"Hey Hallie, what do you want to eat?"
"Ahhhhh zabenyaaaaaa!"
"Morning Hallie"
"Ahhhhh zabenyaaaaaa!"
So, we decided, that as part of Lauras Living List, we would go a see it live on stage in Edinburgh. So we did. And it was amazing.
The Lion King was the first thing we watched together, and it was the last thing we did as a family. Eight days after we returned from Edinburgh, Laura was gone.
"Love will find a way, anywhere we go. We’re home if we are there together."
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