(I'll Never Find) Another You

This is the story of two lovers, now in their 70s, who
repeatedly had the right love at all the wrong times.
Realizing the true “love of her life” has been in and out of
her life for six decades, JOANNA HERRMANN, 74, and suffering
from cancer, invites that person into her life again for one
more try at that love.
CHRIS WESTON is 75 years old. Quietly and uneventfully living
out the remains of his life with no purpose or focus.
Then he receives the phone call that invites him, once again,
to return to the relationship that has elevated yet damaged
him for more than sixty years. He agrees to be her in-home
caretaker, cook and companion.
His decision to return to JOANNA troubles his sister,
VALERIE. She’s a witness to the chaos JOANNA brought to his
life. The marital interferences, on both sides, including a
shooting death. Multiple divorces, alienated children.
Their attraction to each other seems to be other-worldly and
supernatural. We learn that perhaps it is.
The connective thread linking them from their college days to
the present is a series of photographs that CHRIS keeps in a
shoebox. The majority cover their youthful years…1967 to
1982. CHRIS doesn’t share them with JOANNA but uses them to
remember and reflect on the many highlights and lowlights of
their times together.
Breakups, makeups, love-obsessed freak CHRIS’ angry
confrontations with rival suitors and JOANNA’S ex-husbands.
All moments of shared personal history; tinged with heartbreaking nostalgia and regret.
The low point happened in 1996. They’ve abandoned their
respective spouses to be together again when JOANNA’S 20-yrold daughter AMY shoots to death her sexually abusive
stepfather. A crime to which CHRIS confesses in order to
protect her. Even though the final ruling is self-defense,
the anger and scorn they endure drives them apart, seemingly
for good.
As they settle into their roles of patient and caretaker,
they rediscover the reasons for their initial and continuing
attraction.
With VALERIE’S help, CHRIS reconciles with his two adult
daughters, HANNAH, 42 and REBECCA, 37 and finally meets his
five grandchildren.
As her cancer increases, JOANNA reveals why she disappeared
just prior to their 1981 wedding. This resulted from her ex-
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husband suing for sole custody of AMY, then 4-years-old,
claiming JOANNA was an unfit mother. The custody suit was
organized and funded by DEBRA MORGAN, CHRIS’ jilted and
wealthy ex-fiance` knowing it would halt their marriage.
Finally JOANNA introduces CHRIS to SPENCER WILKENS, his
heretofore unknown 53-yr-old son who searched for her when
his adoptive parents died. That absolutely changes everything
and leads to the final personal, romantic resolution. Chris
and Joanna marry.
The theme of (I’ll Never Find) Another You is that while love
sometimes doesn’t conquer all, its memory and revival can
provide emotional solace and hope to those who have loved and
sometimes lost. CHRIS sums it up when during the wedding he
quotes the poet, Robert Browning. “Years of p