Pam Says I Love You

Kim Cooper Findling
8 min readFeb 18, 2021

A woman seeks out my husband daily and shows me how to be better at loving

There is another woman in our town who loves my husband. Her name is Pam. Every time she sees him, which is sometimes five days a week, when they part ways she raises her crumpled hand in the air and says, “I love you, Todd!”

Todd always replies, “I love you, too, Pam!”

One day over breakfast he said to me, “That’s what I’ve got, you and Pam. The people who tell me they love me.”

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Kim Cooper Findling

Fifth-generation Oregonian and writer, editor, publisher, author, mother. Essay is my favorite form. Beach is my favorite place. kimcooperfindling.com