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The first time we dated was in the early summer of '96 in Las Vegas, where I worked as a dancer. I'll always remember how we walked arm in arm along The Strip in the early evening. The neon signs, the sunset sky, it was so romantic. There were crowds of people, but we only had eyes for each other. We sat in a bar and talked till dawn. By morning he said he would escape from his boring company job in Chicago and take me down to Florida. Of course I never expected him to leave his wife and give up his career for a young and foolish girl like me, but that night, I believed anything was possible.
How could I have known that he would start writing, and publish a best-selling novel? I was as surprised as anyone. But, I recognized myself in the book as the character 'Sarah' and was shocked at the depth of his feelings for me. He had often told me he loved me face-to-face, but in the novel, I could truly understand how deeply he felt, how much he loved me. How was I to know he had a heart problem? We never let the thirty-five year age-difference affect our relationship. We shared a love that he never shared with his wife. He told me that, so many times. I was his sun and moon and stars, he said. She meant nothing to him. It was me he loved.
So that is why I stand here today in this court. I am here because I loved him, not because of the money. But I know he wanted me to have half his fortune. I know he was still married when he died, but we spent so much time together, so many nights, so many vacations, for ten years. I gave him ten years of my life. The best years of my life. That money is mine!... That money is mine......it's mine.........
Adjectives
foolish:
Not sensible, without intelligence.
Verbs
only
have eyes for someone:
To love or be attracted to only one person.
expect:
To think something will happen.
give
up:
To stop having something, or stop doing something.
affect:
To change to something.