Love story--AN APPLE OVER THE FENCE

During WW II a young German girl would walk past the
fence of a concentration camp on her way to school each day.

One day she saw a Jewish boy looking through the fence and
she continued to see him there each morning. Her heart went
out to the boy, and one day she threw her lunch apple over
the fence to him. She continued to throw her apple each
day, and there began a furtive communication with the boy,
only a few words because neither of them wanted to be
discovered. The apples began to be a symbol of hope for the
boy who had lost his whole family. He hung on to this
symbol because he knew that there was someone out there who
cared about him in spite of the fear and suffering he went
through, and he looked forward with eagerness each day to
see the girl.

One day came that the boy sadly told the young girl
that she didn't need to come any more because he was being
transferred to another concentration camp. Time went on,
but the memory of the girl with the apples continued to give
hope to the boy, and he survived until the war was over.

Fifteen years later, in 1957 in the United States, two
immigrants, a man and a woman, were lined up for a blind
date. The date went pretty well, and the young man asked the
woman where she had been during the War. The conversation
went along until somehow the woman was telling him the story
of throwing the apples over the fence to the Jewish boy.
"And did he tell you not to come back because he was being
transferred to another concentration camp?" he asked. When
she enquired as to how he knew, he answered her in telling
that he had been that same young boy and how her apples and
friendship had given him hope throughout the years and he
had never forgotten her.

He asked her to marry him on the spot, saying that he
could not bear to be separated from her ever again. Forty
years later in 1996 this same couple appeared on the Opra
Show, and the elderly man handed his wife an apple as a
symbol of their enduring love

...May God Bless us all to find our Eternal Mate!