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\"lindsey<\/a><\/p>\n

During the process of being interviewed for the story<\/a> that appeared on Valentines Day in the Pioneer Press, Molly Guthrie the writer asked me for tons of documents and accounts from friends etc. I asked my long time friend and co-best-man at my wedding, Richard Dahl to write his first hand account of what he saw as the weeks went by as I was getting to know Lindsey. He got it all right!<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve known John since 1992, we became fast friends and that friendship has lasted and grown over the last 23 years.\u00a0 In November 2011, I began working for a client in Minneapolis and for more than the next two years I occupied his guest bedroom two to three nights per week two to three weeks a month.\u00a0 It was a great time, best time I\u2019ve had \u201con the road\u201d in my many years of traveling for work.<\/p>\n

John and I talked about many things, listened to vinyl records through a tube amp, argued politics and religion and shared with each other what was going on in our lives.\u00a0 We shared very personal stories of tragedy and stories of love and hope. On occasion, John would tell me about a woman he met or spent time with.\u00a0 I knew that John accepted his situation as a single man, but I also knew that contentment was the result of great effort.\u00a0 John\u2019s heart, as all of ours, was made to give and receive love, his desire to love someone was great, and it always impressed me that his desire never diminished his standards.\u00a0 John did meet women, he did date some, but he never settled.\u00a0 He spoke to me about them and, never with arrogance or a desire to belittle them (except perhaps the woman who said she was working on a \u201cperpetual motion machine\u201d) made it clear there was nothing there for him.\u00a0 They just didn\u2019t fit together.<\/p>\n

We spoke of work a great deal; it\u2019s what guys do.\u00a0 John told me about many of the jobs he had done; combining apartments, repairing absurd drain lines, complicated keying schemes for large buildings, and rehabbing his house.\u00a0 He showed me pictures of the jobs and even took me to a few.\u00a0 His narrative always centered around the problems he encountered and the solutions he found.\u00a0 Without fail, it was clear his interest focused on what he must solve, until the bathroom at the duplex in St. Paul.<\/p>\n

Enter Lindsey.\u00a0 Client, Friend, Love.\u00a0 Sure the bathroom needed work, but, for the first time, he wasn\u2019t so much interested in the job, but the owner.\u00a0 I\u2019d heard bits about owners previously, but they had never before been a central character.\u00a0 Lindsey the client was different.\u00a0 She was beautiful, but her physical beauty was not the only thing that set her apart, she was driven, she was confident, she was motivated, and she understood sacrifice.\u00a0 I learned all of these things about her from John, he was excited that her values and her faith were in sync with his.<\/p>\n

She became part of the job, but based on what John was telling me, her behavior was suspect.\u00a0 She claimed to trust him to select the tile, yet spent a couple of hours with him choosing tile.\u00a0 She had already hired him, yet came to his house to see the rehab of his bathroom.\u00a0 He was her contractor, yet she was texting him about advice on musicians she should listen to.\u00a0 She had ceased to be simply a client, spending time with Lindsey the friend became joyous occasions for John.\u00a0 He spoke of her in a way that made it clear they were connecting.<\/p>\n

At one point, he told me that he was going to see where this relationship could go.\u00a0 John told me one Thursday (May 1st)*<\/em> as I was getting ready to go home that the following night may be a watershed moment.\u00a0 For the first time, he and Lindsey were getting together with no pretense of the job.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even know what state the bathroom was in at that point, I think it was done or close to being done, but he\u2019d stopped discussing it pretty much.\u00a0 He\u2019d asked her to come over for dinner,\u00a0 lamb on the grill.\u00a0 I\u2019ll admit I was a bit jealous, his lamb is phenomenal.\u00a0 That Saturday night I texted him to ask how Friday went, he said he\u2019d tell me when I got back the next week.<\/p>\n

The following week I arrived at his house and he was beaming.\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t stop smiling.\u00a0 His description of that evening was almost unbelievable, but I did believe it. There is one thing that I know about John, from my own experience as well as from meeting some of the people important in his life, he is a great judge of character.\u00a0 The people he talks about, the people he chooses to spend his time and energy on are worth it.\u00a0 This may seem a bit of self-praise, but I am referring to others.\u00a0 Dawn, Marla, Paul, Tim, his Nana, and Becca, to name a few.\u00a0 The people in his life that he speaks so highly of, so often of, are wonderful.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had the privilege to meet all but Tim, but I have no doubts about him.\u00a0 John\u2019s recommendation of a person is true.\u00a0 He\u2019d told me so much about Lindsey, I was not concerned about who she was.<\/p>\n

I was excited to finally meet Lindsey, but what I saw was very different than I\u2019d expected.\u00a0 She came over that evening to meet me.\u00a0 There was a comfortableness between them, with no pretense.\u00a0 They seemed to simply want to be in each others presence to share some time with each other.\u00a0 They did not need to do anything together, just be together.\u00a0 They sat on the couch, reclining into each other.\u00a0 I made us drinks and we sat and just talked, like old friends.\u00a0 There was never a moment, then or since, where I got the feeling that either of them were a distraction for each other, or that they needed a distraction when together.<\/p>\n

Lindsey made me feel comfortable with them, not like a third wheel on a date, just friends hanging out. I admit, prior to that I did suspect they were infatuated with one another. Like two kids finding a first love. Except they weren\u2019t. They weren\u2019t kids, they weren’t finding first love, and if they ever were infatuated with one another it didn\u2019t last. They began to spend more and more time together, Lindsey had long since ceased to be a client, she was now more than a friend, Lindsey was his love. He looked for things that he could do for her. He coveted time with her, he adjusted his schedule, his late nights and late mornings became early nights and early mornings just to able to speak with her or text her prior to her morning at work.<\/p>\n

His schedule changed more so once they were married and living together. I was in some ways in the background, I joked that she was an interloper, but I was exactly where I needed to be. Lindsey was his love, and deserved all the affection, attention, and adoration John gave her.<\/p>\n

Many people may have been concerned that their story, in particular, her progression from client to friend to love happened so quickly.\u00a0 But not people that know John, that saw he and Lindsey together.\u00a0 I am reminded of a line from When Harry Met Sally, Harry says to Sally \u201cwhen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.\u201d\u00a0 It may sound cliche, but that sums up their story in my mind.<\/p>\n

At their wedding, as John\u2019s best man, I toasted Lindsey alone.\u00a0 It never occurred to me that it was somewhat unconventional, it just seemed appropriate. \u00a0 The one thing I saw more than anything was that John\u2019s contentment as a single man, which on the surface appeared to be happiness, was anything but.\u00a0 Lindsey made him happy in a way that he yearned for for so long. \u00a0 From everything I saw, he made her happy too.\u00a0 They clicked, they worked, there was nothing cheap or counterfeit to them.\u00a0 It\u2019s tragic that so many people live a lifetime without finding love in the way that John and Lindsey did.<\/p>\n

When John called me from Cozumel to tell me Lindsey passed I couldn’t comprehend it.\u00a0 I literally did not understand what he was saying at first, not because he was unintelligible, simply because it was too shocking.\u00a0 I take comfort knowing that Lindsey is with Christ, and greater comfort knowing that God is sovereign and He works all things for good for those who love Him.\u00a0 I know that both Lindsey and John love Him and are in His hands, and there is no doubt in my mind that she is with God now.\u00a0 There is also no doubt that for that all too brief time that they were together there is no where else they should have been.<\/p>\n

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