Review: Strong Love Can Overcome The Negative Opinions Of Other People
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2013
This is a warm and wonderful love story. YOU MAKE ME FEEL BRAND NEW by CHICKI BROWN is about a divorced woman with two grown-up children. The title of the story attracted me to buy and read it.I happen to love the song. The lyrics are positive and beautiful. After Jan's divorce, she meets Mac. Mac is handsome, kind and just plain lovable. However, the fly in the buttermilk is Mac's age. Mac is eleven years younger than Jan. Jan is forty seven years old.I suppose this type of romance is still called a May/September romance. One thing I know after reading Chicki Brown's story is that when a man is younger than the woman no matter how much they love one another people will have an opinion about whether the older woman is robbing the cradle. The woman seems to suffer the most in this type of relationship. Jan always brought the issue of age up to Mac when they were alone. Then, the most painful time is when Mac's mother, Ruth brings up the fact that she thinks her son will lose the best years of his life with this "old" woman. Of course, the girls have different opinions too. One daughter is still stuck in time thinking about whether her mother should have divorced her father, Robert.The question becomes will the the romance make it through the storm? I think Mac's open and nurturing and preservering love kept the romance alive and well. In the end it doesn't matter what people say about you and the one you love. It's how much you love that person. Will you love them through thick and thin? The opinions of other people don't count.  This is an easy going romance with love making sweet and gentle, but this story is also filled with the tough issues that must be faced during the romance. It's not a walk down the garden path unless real, true, binding love is in the hands of the two lovers. They must carry that love as closely as the rings on their fingers.