Love Story!!! Truely Inspirational!!!

I read this in a mail that was forwarded to me...I loved reading it...So I thought to make my blog more valueable by posting it here.

The Salty Coffee

He met her at a party.
She was so outstanding that many guys were chasing after her, while he was so normal that nobody paid attention to him. However, at the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him. She was surprised, but due to being polite, she promised.
They sat in a nice coffee shop. He was too nervous to say anything. She also felt uncomfortable.
She thought, Please, let me go home....
Suddenly he asked the waiter. "Would you please give me some salt? I'd like to put it in my coffee."
Everybody stared at him. It sounded so strange!
His face turned red, but still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it.
She asked him curiously, "Why do you have this strange taste?"
He replied, When I was a little boy, I was living near the sea, I liked playing in the sea, I could feel the taste of the sea, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I always think of my childhood, I think of my hometown, I miss my hometown very much and I miss my parents who are still living there".
While saying that tears filled his eyes. She was deeply touched.
That's his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart.
She thought...A man who can tell out his homesickness must be a man who loves home, cares about home, has responsibility of home.
Then she started to speak too.
She spoke about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family. That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story.
They continued to date. She found that he was actually the man who meets all her demands. He had tolerance, was kind hearted, warm, careful.
He was such a good person but she almost missed him!
Thanks to his salty coffee!

Then the story was just like every beautiful love story , the princess married the prince. Then they were living a happy life... And, every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as she knew that's the way he liked it.

After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said:

"My dearest,
Please forgive me, forgive my whole life lie.
This was the only lie I said to you---the salty coffee.
Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time. Actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt. It was hard for me to change so I just went ahead. I never thought that could be the start of our communication. I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that, as I have promised not to lie to you for anything.
Now when I know I'm dying, I'm afraid of nothing. So I'm telling you the truth. I don't like the salty coffee, what a strange bad taste it has. But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life!
Since I love you, I never feel sorry for anything I do for you.
Having you with me is my biggest happiness for my whole life.
If I can live for the second time, I'd still want to know you and have you for my whole life, even if I have to drink the salty coffee again".

Her tears made the letter totally wet.
Someday, someone asked her: what's the taste of salty coffee?
It's sweet. She replied.

Love is not to forget but to forgive, not to see but to understand, not to hear but to listen, not to let go but to HOLD ON !!!!