 |
| Chasing Monarchs - Mexico - 2012 |
Pundits
often recommend that people ought to marry someone like yourself, with
exactly the same values, same religion, same ethnic tribe. In other
words find your clone. But unsaid is that doing so can also result in
missing out on what could be. That has certainly been my experience!
After Grace Breslin, my beautiful and good wife of 30 years and a daily Roman Catholic mass goer, died, I looked for another Grace. Instead my Episcopalian soul met and fell head over heels in love with Gloria, a good looking Jewish woman of great style, whose wit, intellect and zest for life captivated me. Both of us had long, successful marriages that ended with the terminal illnesses of spouses six months before we met.
After
11 wonderful years, I lost this new love of my life, Gloria Krasnow
Liebenson. To the outside world we were living in sin since we did not
marry to avoid problems of inheritance. We were unconditionally
committed to each other. Our relationship that began when we were in our
80's gave each other the unexpected and surprising gift of endless
banter, debate, travel, a passion for the arts and politics, and so much
more. We amazed each other with the different sides of our aging
personalities. What fun, what caring, what love, until illness took her
away. What great gifts we were to each other so late in life. The cliche
of sunset years being the best suddenly became appropriate. Who would
have thought it possible? MORE...
