Samantha Geldenhuis

Dottie lived on her husband's social security.

But they had plenty of adventures, says Lee's brother Cliff.

A kind of Swiss family Robinson traveling between South Carolina, Florida, and the jungles of Belize.

They were really living an Indiana Jones lifestyle before there was an Indiana Jones.

In Belize, they were in the jungle living with local families.

Lee inherited her mother's love of adventure.

at one point traveling deep into Africa with Susie.

I just knew that all of the traveling that we had done and that she had done with her family prepared her for really what was the ultimate adventure of her life.

That adventure began in Charleston when Lee, by then a flight attendant, met Harris Todd, a stockbroker with a love of poetry.

And to many, the picture of a perfect Southern gentleman.

And was it love at first sight?

No, not at all.

It wasn't love at first sight, it was friendship.

All that changed five years later.

He just professed to me that I'd made him feel different than anybody else has ever made him feel.

But Lee's dear friend, Patty Roth, did not think it was a good match.

They wanted very different things out of life.

She was very outgoing, and he kind of kept her to himself.

To Lee, that was part of the attraction, part of the challenge.

I thought I was a person that was going to help him have a more normal, fun, loving life because he was so serious.