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yorge123
Frederick, Maryland | Мушкарац тражим жену
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My name is George, I live in Frederick, MD. I am 73.years old – I know, the number seems high to me, too, but somehow, and unnoticed by me, the years have slipped by. That, I suppose, is one of at least two paradoxes associated with having been fortunate enough to experience a full, varied and very happy life. The other is: you don’t want to see it end.
I grew up in Greenville, North Carolina, served in the Navy and went thru the engineering program at North Carolina State on the GI Bill augmented with monies generated as an hypnotic entertainer playing the “frat scene”. That was a lot of fun, and laid the background for a riotous set of years during the 1960s dabbling in the “New Age” culture so flamboyant in the California setting of the 60s. Lots of fun memories and stories there (from psychic photography to “deghosting” Elke’s Summer’s house in Bel Air).
I am a retired engineer, and have spent my career in California (San Francisco and Santa Monica) and the Washington/Baltimore areas. I have worked in the following industries: public utilities, electronics industry, software industry, the health care industry, and the consulting industry. I have seen these industries from the perspective of the private sector, the academic sector and the public sector. I have no complaints with my career, and the life it has made possible for me, In fact, life was going swimmingly until last July 2009.
A year ago my wife passed away, and that brought our 49 year love affair to an unbelievably crushing end. She was a loving, witty, beautiful, classically elegant northern Italian woman with an intellect that opened worlds to me that I never knew existed. We laughed together, worked together, played together, argued and made up together, and in the process managed to rear a rather neat daughter. Loving is, I think, the most creative force in the universe. Remembered loving is, I have begun to learn, is the most destructive force in the universe, and I can only attempt to express it by a line in a long ago forgotten poem from my college days: “Had I not long since shed all tears, I could weep enough to bring on thunder!”
I have no intentions of trying to “replace” my wife. It wouldn’t be fair to her or to me or to anyone I should happen to meet. She is gone, and there is nothing that I can do to change that. If there were, clearly, I would have already done that. Instead, it’s time to “pick myself up, dust myself off “, get the show on the road and get the ballgame going again,
I grew up in Greenville, North Carolina, served in the Navy and went thru the engineering program at North Carolina State on the GI Bill augmented with monies generated as an hypnotic entertainer playing the “frat scene”. That was a lot of fun, and laid the background for a riotous set of years during the 1960s dabbling in the “New Age” culture so flamboyant in the California setting of the 60s. Lots of fun memories and stories there (from psychic photography to “deghosting” Elke’s Summer’s house in Bel Air).
I am a retired engineer, and have spent my career in California (San Francisco and Santa Monica) and the Washington/Baltimore areas. I have worked in the following industries: public utilities, electronics industry, software industry, the health care industry, and the consulting industry. I have seen these industries from the perspective of the private sector, the academic sector and the public sector. I have no complaints with my career, and the life it has made possible for me, In fact, life was going swimmingly until last July 2009.
A year ago my wife passed away, and that brought our 49 year love affair to an unbelievably crushing end. She was a loving, witty, beautiful, classically elegant northern Italian woman with an intellect that opened worlds to me that I never knew existed. We laughed together, worked together, played together, argued and made up together, and in the process managed to rear a rather neat daughter. Loving is, I think, the most creative force in the universe. Remembered loving is, I have begun to learn, is the most destructive force in the universe, and I can only attempt to express it by a line in a long ago forgotten poem from my college days: “Had I not long since shed all tears, I could weep enough to bring on thunder!”
I have no intentions of trying to “replace” my wife. It wouldn’t be fair to her or to me or to anyone I should happen to meet. She is gone, and there is nothing that I can do to change that. If there were, clearly, I would have already done that. Instead, it’s time to “pick myself up, dust myself off “, get the show on the road and get the ballgame going again,
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