WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- Theirs is a true love story.
"It was instant love; I knew I was gonna marry that girl," says Turgut Kaytmaz, better known as "TK."
His smile hasn't faded since that premonition proved true.
His fifteen year marriage to his wife, Serena, started at a table in a restaurant he owned in Manhattan.
TK laughs as he describes, "I wouldn't leave the table. I wouldn't leave the table until I got a date with her!"
And around the table is where they built their life.
Together they opened Cafe Centro and Cafe Allora in the Northwood section of West Palm Beach.
TK asks, "Food, wine and love - what else do you need?"
They shared a devoted love to each other and their 13-year-old daughter.
Serena was alone in her love of horseback riding.
"I was so afraid of her getting hurt," TK says.
It's yet another premonition that proved true Friday morning.
He explains, "We got up, had breakfast, we kissed and she went to her horse and I said 'be careful,' and she said, 'of course'...She said, 'I love you.' I said, "I love you,' and I close the door. Those were the last two words we had."
TK explains that Serena was just trotting Friday at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center when she somehow slipped off of her horse. He claims, as she fell, the horse's knee hit her chest, right near her heart."
"Its a one in a billion not one in a million...It's a freak accident," he describes, shaking head.
That freak accident killed Serena.
While devastating for TK, it may be worse for their daughter.
"She was screaming, open the door, running through the corridors of the hospital looking for doctors asking them to bring her to life and she was telling them 'please, take my heart and put it in my mommy's heart," TK explains.
The pain - like the family's love - is impossible to understand
That is enough reason for TK's smile to beam just as brightly days after Serena's death, as it did the day they met.
He explains, "I'm able to smile because I remember my wife. She wants me smiling. I'm sure she's watching me."
A memorial service is scheduled for 11am Wednesday at Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach.
