Page Hodel didn't have to go far to find the love of her life... Madalene Rodriguez lived right across the street.
"When I met Madalene," she explains, "I really felt that I had found the love I had looked for my whole life." Hodel wanted to find a way to express that love. "I'm a super romantic," she adds.
And what better way to do that than with a heart, in fact, lots of hearts. "I would just make a little heart for her on her door step so that when she went to work on Monday morning there would be a heart waiting for her to say 'I love you, don't forget, I love you so much.'"
Today, Hodel estimates that she has made some 223 hearts, 100 of which are featured in her recently published book, Monday Hearts for Madalene (Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang).
Sadly, just seven months after they fell in love, Rodriguez was diagnosed with advanced stage ovarian cancer and died four months later at age 46.
Rodriguez' passing, however, has not stopped the hearts. "I promised her that I would make a heart for her every week for the rest of my life so that she knows that I will never ever forget her."
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