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Everyone told me I was out of my mind. And maybe they were right. What 63-year-old woman from Iowa up and moves to New York?<\/p>\n

My closest friends in Sioux City were shocked. \u201cShirley, people in New York aren\u2019t like people in Iowa,\u201d they told me. My 39-year-old son, Blyth, agreed with them. \u201cAre you sure you\u2019ve thought this through, Mom?\u201d he said more than once. Everyone I knew tried to dissuade me. \u201cYour life is here,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I had no clue what I was doing. I was too old for a midlife crisis, I knew that. But I was sure God was calling me to New York, for whatever reason.<\/p>\n

The idea had struck like a thunderbolt that summer when I was going over reading materials for a women\u2019s church retreat. One of the books was a guide to aging that stressed sharing your life stories with family. That\u2019s when it hit me\u2014I didn\u2019t have any family nearby to talk to about that sort of stuff.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: MEET CUPID’S HELPERS, TRULY ANGELS ON EARTH<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

I was divorced, and both my parents had passed away a decade earlier. Blyth was really the only family I had, and he lived all the way out on Long Island in New York.<\/p>\n

My future flashed before me. I pictured myself holed up in some nursing home in the middle of Iowa. No family, no visitors, no one to share my life with. Lonely.<\/p>\n

A voice in my head said, You could move to New York….<\/em><\/p>\n

I almost laughed out loud at the thought. Move to New York? I\u2019d lived in the Midwest all my life. Not once had I dreamed of trading cornfields for skyscrapers. Maybe if I were 20 years younger.<\/p>\n

And yet I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about it. As if God had planted the idea in my brain. It nagged me throughout the retreat, in the quiet moments when I was supposed to be meditating.<\/p>\n

Was moving to New York really so <\/em>ridiculous? After all, Blyth was there. He loved his job as a performance-arts director for a university. And, well, as comfortable as I was in Sioux City, sometimes I did wonder. I had my job, my friends, my church. But life was routine, humdrum. Could there be something missing?<\/p>\n

I returned home from the retreat and did a little homework. I was good at that\u2014I\u2019d worked as a secretary for many years before taking a part-time job at J.C. Penney.<\/p>\n

I contacted a church in Long Island and asked about senior housing in the area. The answer wasn\u2019t promising. If I wanted an apartment, I\u2019d have to get in line. There was an eight-year waiting list.<\/p>\n

Maybe I needed to broaden my search. In order for me to move, my new city had to be 1) close enough to Blyth, 2) near a J.C. Penney store, so I could transfer jobs and 3) not too far from a Congregational church.<\/p>\n

One result caught my eye. A place called Poughkeepsie. Where in the world was that? I wasn\u2019t even sure how to pronounce it and I was going to move there? At 63? I searched and found that it was located along the Hudson River 60 miles from New York City, two hours from Blyth.<\/p>\n

That January, I reached out to the Congregational church in Poughkeepsie. \u201cHow might a nice senior find affordable housing in Poughkeepsie?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

The church secretary put me in touch with a Realtor, a member of the congregation, who got back to me with several housing options. I filled out three applications and prayed on it.<\/p>\n

By March, though, I hadn\u2019t heard back from anyone. I was flying out to visit Blyth at the end of the month\u2014the perfect opportunity to make a stop in Poughkeepsie. Unless God didn\u2019t want me to move. Maybe I\u2019d misheard? Confused, I called my first choice of the apartments I\u2019d applied to.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is kinda funny,\u201d the property manager said. \u201cSomeone gave notice today. Can you move in on May first?\u201d<\/p>\n

Before I could give it a second thought, I heard myself say, \u201cI\u2019ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

I got off the phone and instantly entered panic mode. I wrote out a massive to-do list. May was only two months away! How could I say goodbye to my life in Iowa just like that? How could I find a job? And move all my stuff?<\/p>\n

I tackled the first item on my list\u2014finding a job. I contacted the manager of the J.C. Penney store in Poughkeepsie. We set up a meeting during the week I\u2019d be in New York visiting Blyth.<\/p>\n

I brought along my last performance review and hoped for the best. I worked in the men\u2019s department at the J.C. Penney in Sioux City and I loved it. What if she stuck me in a department I hated, like children\u2019s shoes or, worse, hosiery?<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, your review looks great,\u201d the manager said. \u201cI have an opening in the men\u2019s department. What do you think?\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t need to think! Now came the hard part\u2014figuring out how to get all my stuff to Poughkeepsie, 1,400 miles away, on a budget. I\u2019d never driven more than four hours by myself. Would I need someone to accompany me?<\/p>\n

But packing up boxes, I heard it again. That same calm, quiet voice that\u2019d convinced me to move to New York in the first place. Do you really think I\u2019d take you this far without a plan? <\/em><\/p>\n

In late April, I loaded up my car and headed east with my trusty map. I made it to Poughkeepsie in three days. My new apartment was in walking distance of just about everything, even a park. A sense of peace came over me, as though I was finally home. Home in a place I\u2019d never heard of just a few months before.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: A SINGLE MOM’S SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Little by little, I settled in. When I wasn\u2019t working part-time at the store, I explored New York State. I joined a book club, took daily walks and attended free film screenings at the library. Yet something was missing.<\/p>\n

I was lonely. I longed for someone to share my new life with. So I landed on another totally crazy idea\u2014to give online dating a shot. I created a profile on a dating site for seniors and, once again, prayed that I was hearing God right.<\/p>\n

That July, just as my account was about to expire, I came across the profile of a man named Charlie. He was from a place called Saugerties, an hour from Poughkeepsie, and he attended church every week. How bad could he be?<\/p>\n

I sent him a message. \u201cHow about we meet on Sunday?\u201d he replied. I suggested drinks. Quick and painless, not like a disastrous three-hour dinner date I\u2019d recently been on.<\/p>\n

We met at T.G.I. Friday\u2019s for peach lemonade. Charlie sat across the table from me. \u201cI want to really see you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Over the next five hours, we talked about our kids, our jobs and my recent move. He didn\u2019t take his eyes off me, leaning in to catch my every word. I had an excuse prepared in case I wanted to leave early. But I never had to use it.<\/p>\n

We both had the day off on Tuesday, so we agreed to meet again, this time to visit the Franklin Roosevelt library and the Vanderbilt mansion in Hyde Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you doing on Friday?\u201d Charlie asked at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to New York City to meet Blyth,\u201d I said. \u201cI made plans to travel into the city with a friend, but she backed out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if I go with you instead?\u201d Charlie said with a big smile.<\/p>\n

It was a little soon for him to be meeting my son. But I hadn\u2019t done anything by the book so far. We met Friday morning at the train station and spent the day in Manhattan, wandering around Times Square and holding hands like a young couple in love.<\/p>\n

That night at dinner, Blyth and Charlie hit it off too. On Saturday I met Charlie\u2019s family for his niece\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n

Charlie wasn\u2019t anything like the men I\u2019d dated in Iowa. He was curious about every little thing, just like me. The kind of guy who loved a trip to the library, spent summers camping with his three sons and dressed up as Santa Claus every year at his church\u2019s Christmas party.<\/p>\n

On weekends, we took day trips and hikes, went to concerts and even a lighthouse festival. I could be myself with Charlie, could confess my neat-freak tendencies and past relationship mistakes. He brought out a more relaxed side of me.<\/p>\n

For my birthday, he bought me a turquoise bike so we could explore some of his favorite trails. I stopped making so many lists, stopped making so many plans.<\/p>\n

Charlie was the guy I\u2019d always dreamed of falling in love with. I just never imagined that it\u2019d happen in New York, of all places.<\/p>\n

But God knew. A year later, we got married. We sang the song \u201cAmazed\u201d to each other at church, surrounded by our children and friends, and settled into Charlie\u2019s house in Saugerties.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t have planned it better if I\u2019d tried.<\/p>\n

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