96歲老人寫歌贈亡妻 感動無數網友

Fred Stobaugh, 96, remembered laying eyes on the prettiest girl he ever saw: It was 1938, and she was a car hop named Lorraine at an A&W Rootbeer stand in East Peoria, lll.
96歲高齡的老人佛萊德·斯托博還記得第一次看見最美的女孩是在1938年，這個女孩名叫羅芮妮，在東皮奧里亞的艾德熊餐廳做服務員賣飲料。

Two years later, she was his wife. They remained together until Lorraine's death this year."She gave me 75 years of her life," Stobaugh said in an online documentary.
兩年後，羅芮妮成爲了他的妻子，他們一直在一起直到今年羅芮妮去世。斯托博在一個網絡紀錄片中說：“她獻給了我一生中的75年。”

Soon after Lorraine died, Green Shoe Studio, an Illinois-based music studio, held an online contest for singer-songwriters. Studio employees were sorting through uploaded videos when they received a manila de were heartfelt lyrics that Stobaugh wrote about the love of his life, titled "Sweet Lorraine."
羅芮妮去世不久後，一個位於伊利諾伊州的音樂工作室——綠鞋工作室——發起了一個網絡寫歌比賽，工作室員工在瀏覽上傳視頻時收到了一個黃褐色的信封，信封裏正是斯托博飽含對妻子的愛所寫的感人歌詞，歌曲取名爲《甜美的羅芮妮》。

"Oh sweet Lorraine, I wish we could do all the good times over again," the song starts. "Oh sweet Lorraine, life only goes around once, but never again. The memories always linger on. Oh sweet Lorraine, I don't want to move on. ... that's why I wrote this song."
歌詞寫道：“哦，甜美的羅芮妮，我希望我們可以再重溫往昔的美好時光；哦，甜美的羅芮妮，你圍繞着我的生活，此生僅有一 次，不會再有，只剩記憶留下。哦，甜美的羅芮妮，我不想繼續過沒有你的日子……這就是我爲什麼要寫這首歌。”

The studio said the lyrics didn't meet the submission criteria for the singer-songwriter contest. But it did him one better - the studio had professional musicians work with Stobaugh to transform the lyrics into a studio created a documentary video telling Stobaugh's story and posted it online.
工作室稱雖然歌詞達不到比賽的入圍標準，但對斯托博放寬了要求，請來專業音樂人幫助斯托博將歌詞編成一首歌。工作室製作了一部記錄影像，講述了斯托博的故事並上傳到網上。

The video showed the moment Stobaugh first listened to the finished song. When the song was over, Stobaugh visibly trembled, held his hand over his mouth and stared off into the distance."Wonderful," he said.
視頻拍下了斯托博第一次聽到這首歌的時刻，當歌曲放完後，斯托博明顯地顫抖着，用手捂住嘴並看向遠處。他說：“太棒了。”

The song has since gone on to top the iTunes downloads in the Singer/Songwriter category, according to Green Shoe Studio.
據綠鞋工作室稱，這首歌已經成爲了iTunes原創類榜單的下載冠軍。

"It was a wonderful 75 years, I often think they're kind of unreal - dreaming, or something. But it was real. That's all I can say. It was real.I really, really miss her," he said.
斯托博說：“那是完美的75年，我經常覺得那段時光是這麼不真實，是夢境還是其他什麼的，但是那是真實的。這就是我所能說的，這是真實的，我真的，真的好想念她。”