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10-25-2007, 10:34 AM
What a wonderful story. (http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071021/NEWS01/710210316/1002)
By JAMI KINTON
News Journal
MANSFIELD -- The act of kindness an elderly man displayed this week left Karen Cline in tears.
Twenty-seven years ago, Karen and Mark Cline had just gotten married.
The wedding was small.
"We were so young," said Cline, of Mansfield. "I was 18 and he was 19 -- and we didn't have much money. I made our flowers and wore my sister's dress. It was just very simple."
There was no extra money for a honeymoon -- or for wedding pictures.
"The pictures were $150, and when it was all over, we just didn't have enough for them," Cline said. "I can remember looking at them and just being heartsick. They were beautiful, and we couldn't have them."
Cline said she had only one picture of the biggest day of her life.
"No one took any pictures. I had just one photo of me coming down the aisle that someone took," she said. "But there were none of my husband, my family or anything else."
But on Monday morning at Cline's workplace, Taylor's Country Diner on Springmill Road, memories she thought were gone forever were miraculously restored.
"An elderly gentleman came in and walked up the register and asked Suzy (another employee) if Karen worked here, saying he had something for me," Cline said. "When she said that I did work here, he walked back out to his car and then came back in. He had his hands behind his back."
Cline said when he saw her he said, "Oh my goodness, how have you grown."
"I told him, 'Sir, I'm sorry, but I don't remember you,'" she said. "He said, 'Maybe you'll remember this,' and pulled a photo album from behind his back."
When he handed it to her, Cline said she was speechless.
By JAMI KINTON
News Journal
MANSFIELD -- The act of kindness an elderly man displayed this week left Karen Cline in tears.
Twenty-seven years ago, Karen and Mark Cline had just gotten married.
The wedding was small.
"We were so young," said Cline, of Mansfield. "I was 18 and he was 19 -- and we didn't have much money. I made our flowers and wore my sister's dress. It was just very simple."
There was no extra money for a honeymoon -- or for wedding pictures.
"The pictures were $150, and when it was all over, we just didn't have enough for them," Cline said. "I can remember looking at them and just being heartsick. They were beautiful, and we couldn't have them."
Cline said she had only one picture of the biggest day of her life.
"No one took any pictures. I had just one photo of me coming down the aisle that someone took," she said. "But there were none of my husband, my family or anything else."
But on Monday morning at Cline's workplace, Taylor's Country Diner on Springmill Road, memories she thought were gone forever were miraculously restored.
"An elderly gentleman came in and walked up the register and asked Suzy (another employee) if Karen worked here, saying he had something for me," Cline said. "When she said that I did work here, he walked back out to his car and then came back in. He had his hands behind his back."
Cline said when he saw her he said, "Oh my goodness, how have you grown."
"I told him, 'Sir, I'm sorry, but I don't remember you,'" she said. "He said, 'Maybe you'll remember this,' and pulled a photo album from behind his back."
When he handed it to her, Cline said she was speechless.