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Show ijgapasfr r THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, January 19, 2000 - Page Decembers are for beginnings and endings like Id to share this with you... and you can guess the rest. He was cute, but not my type. Apparently I was HIS... He followed me around like a lovesick puppy and in those days, interns made no monthly wage. Neither did the student nurses, and when a patient gave him a dollar tip or two or three, he would come to me and share it with me. He was gentle, sweet and very shy. One day when I was making rounds with him, he told a patient to Inspire and Expire. I shook my head violently, knowing his English was not that good... no, no, no, but neither he nor the patient paid any attention. Then I decided he was crazy enough to go on a date with. Neither of us had any money, so our dates consisted of a walk in the park, or a trolley ride... costing 10 cents each way. And by the fountain in Lincoln Park in Chicago, after chasing me around it for a couple of times, when he kissed me, that was it. I was his forever. It had been destined, December is a month of beginnings, and endings for me, and I like to think of beginnings now that I have 61hOO r'tXX, reached the twilight of my by Freda Aron I the have per- fect guy for you and is he cute? WOW! Oh stop that, you know how I feel about blind dates, I told my friend, who was in nurses training with me in Chicago. "Hes not a blind date, hes the new intern and you can see for yourself. Oh, well, hes probably mar- ried, havent seen any that aren r. Hasnt got a ring on and hes one of the new crop of Jewish refugees from Germany. Yech, German men, yech! That was December 10, 1939, there was no way out. In later years, I found out that plans had been made for him to enter the Lutheran Hospital in Brooklyn, at the same time I had planned to start my nurses training there, but then suddenly decided that maybe being away from home would as- cago hospital, but was registered under her maiden name, and when she finished her schooling, asked the Swiss Consulate to be allowed to bring her fiancee home with her because her mother was planning a big wedding. His visa was granted (w'c cannot stand in the way of love, said the Swiss Consulate), and he arrived sure my finishing the three year training period, and a couple of at the American Hospital in Chi- hospitals in Chicago had accepted me... so I chose one. He, having had to leave Germany, cago, one year after I did. Our marriage was like most mar- riages, good and because Jews were not allowed to study anymore, and fortunately landed in Basel, Switzerland, where he finished his medical schooling, was good friends with one of his fellow students, a woman from Chicago, whose husband was a resident in a Chi- - nai&eMtel -- ii ,n i trying. I had never wanted to be married, I felt living with another human being in such close proximity would be too restricting. When he said, What will your mother say, when the children start coming, I agreed and we were married. There was 47 years of ups and down, mostly ups and always lots of love and loving, which produced four children... very decent human beings, what else can anyone ask for. On December 20, 1989, my darling died, pfter a devastating five years with a multitude of illnesses. And then, to sweeten the date, December 20, 1990, my son Stan (from Chicago) married Liz, the love of his life. 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