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CAROL AEBERSOLD

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BILL PARMAN

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April 20, 2024



OUR STORY

From Friend to Bridesmaid to Bride in 58 Years

Carol: For forty-two years I had been happily married to Bob Aebersold. My
childhood best friend, Carolyn and her husband Bill attended our wedding, and
through the years we remained close friends. Our children even played together.

Almost ten years ago Bob suddenly passed away. Although I carried on laughing,
smiling attending church, etc. a void was left in my heart. Loneliness and I
became well acquainted. On July 25, 2023, I poured out my feelings to God in my
prayer journal: Lord, please put a growing Christian man who will love me and my
family into my life.

Two days later I received a surprise text from Bill Parman while he was resting
on an Iowa hilltop during a bicycle ride across Iowa. I was totally caught off
guard and wondered what in the world was going on? The texts continued, and then
came long phone calls I eventually shared with Bill my journal entry and plea to
God. Bill’s reply was, “I want to be that man.”

We decided we should meet since we hadn’t seen each other in twenty years. Our
reunion was electrifying, and as we prayed together God made it clear that Bill
was His answer to my prayer. Three months later we became engaged, and our
wedding is April 20. We look forward to serving Him together in whatever time we
have.

Bill: I was first introduced to Carol during the summer of 1966, while I was
visiting my, then, girlfriend, Carolyn, who lived in, Indiana. Carol was
Carolyn’s best friend from childhood. In the summer of 1968 after Carolyn and I
graduated from Taylor University, we were married, and Carol was a bridesmaid in
our wedding. Over the next 55 years, I came to know Carol vicariously through
stories told me by Carolyn and occasionally by face-to-face meetings.

In June of 2022, I lost Carolyn to metastatic breast cancer, and the thought of
remarriage never entered my mind, but as time passed I realized I did not like
living alone. I squared my shoulders and resigned myself to live as a single
male, but in July of 2023, my life took an unexpected turn.

I joined three friends in July 2023, to ride in a bicycle tour across Iowa. For
a few weeks prior to the ride, it had been on my mind to send a casual text to
Carol to see how she was doing and to let her know that I was getting along
fine; however I had not sent the text. One day during the ride I was climbing a
long Iowa hill. The only thing on my mind was getting to the top. Thoughts of
Carol were nowhere in my conscience. At the top of the hill I stopped to take a
picture of the Iowa landscape. After I took the picture Carol came to my mind.
It was as if a voice said, “Remember that text you were going to send to Carol?
Now is the time.” So, I quickly typed a text, attached the picture and sent it
her.

Upon my return home from Iowa, I sent Carol a text that I was safely home but
had come down with a bad cold. Carol continued to check on me by text and phone
calls (I have come to know that is part of her nature). This led to more text
messages and phone calls. After texting each other for two or three weeks, Carol
shared a surprising text with me. She wrote to me saying that two days before I
had sent her the text from the Iowa hilltop, she had made an entry into her
journal, asking God to send her a growing Christian man who would love her and
her family. We both felt that God’s providence was working in our lives, thus,
our serious relationship began. I responded to her text with, “I want to be that
man.”



Jennifer Postorino

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