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Relationship

Single. Interested in meeting people for friendship

Hometown

I grew up in Southmont. Moved to Pittsburgh at 20

Places I've been

I attended Southmont School from grade 1 through 12. (Johnstown, PA) I studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and Professional Photography at ASMP. I spent my life as Buyer, General Manager, Operations Manager and Vice President of various businesses that sold professional photographic equipment to professional photographers, government, industry, hospitals, universities, law enforcement etc. My customers included Eastman Kodak, United States Secret Service, US Steel, Alcoa, Rockwell, PPG, Westinghouse, Kennametal, US Air Force, US Navy, National Geographic etc.. My companies designed equipment, outfitted expeditions for museums and consulted on outer space projects. Suzy and I have been to: London, Montreal, Acapulco, Stockholm and many, many beaches.

More about me

I am a widower. My wife passed away 59 months ago after fighting breast cancer for 13 years. We were married 35 years. I am an only child. We had no children. My interests are handyman activities, woodworking, gardening, bicycling, photography, sportscar racing, travel, nature, helping other people, writing, collecting various things, watching figure skating competitions, I am interested in world peace, saving the environment and liberal causes.

Among my favorite recollections of my wife are those of her in Art Museums here and abroad. I liked to watch people's reaction to her. People seemed to be captivated by her beauty, sophistication and obvious charm. Many described her as reminding them of Audrey Hepburn. She had a degree in Art History, was an expert on The Impressionists and had a deep appreciation for all venues of artistic expression. She was a beautiful freestyle figure skater.

As far as I am concerned, I am still married to Suzy and always will be. I am very much in love with her. That doesn't change.

I have always been a highly motivated person. With Suzy's death, that light has dimmed significantly. My hope is that eventually, I will find a direction to my life again.

Susan and I collaborated on a masterpiece. That masterpiece was our marriage.

During my life with Suzy, we had many hopes and dreams. Now, my hopes and dreams are summed up by this quotation:

"Heaven hath in store what thou has lost"

Added February 2011:

I have found that as I started to free myself and my memories from the destruction of grief and learned how to embrace all of the goodness of our years together without somber overtones, I began to be released from overpowering sadness. All of the excitement and happiness of our life together is still within me. I just had to learn how to feel it without the white sound of sorrow drowning it out. Everything that I live now still includes Suzy as she will always be part of me. 

 Added March 23 2011:

As I watch the first shoots emerge from the ground in Suzy's gardens and the spring sun casts highlights and shadows across our small, private nature preserve, I am reminded that Suzy is always near. I feel her presence when I open the door to her potting shed and delight in the new growth of all of the assortment of plants that she tenderly and loving placed in our gardens. Soon, I will be out on the bike path again with warm memories of when she was beside me in that very place. Now, she resides in my heart.

Added April 9, 2011

Considering the events of the last few weeks and months, I can no longer ignore my commitment to my moral beliefs. I am making a pledge to Planned Parenthood for continuing financial support in honor of my late wife, Susan. Also, I will never again vote for any conservative candidate for office as they have proven that they share none of my basic ideals.

I can no longer passively ignore those who turn their backs on those humans who need our social support. My website has been accessed by almost 10,000 people. I will be asking all of them to make a similar commitment. You are either with us or against us.

 

 Added July 2011

My new goal is to master video editing so that I can create a movie of Suzy skating. So far, transfering VHS tape to DVD and then converting those files to a form compatible with Window Moviemaker, has been a challenge. I will succeed. I am driven by love... 

Added August 2011

Just returned from three days at the Indycar Races at Mid Ohio. Suzy and I shared a special lifelong passion for racing. As I walk through the pits and around the track, regardless who I am with or what I am doing, I am alone with the cars and memories of my beautiful Suzy.

 

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                                 Death Is Nothing At All

                      by Henry Scott Holland 1847 -1918

Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped away
into the next room.

 

I am I,
and you are you;
whatever we were to each other,
that, we still are.

 

Call me by my old familiar name,
speak to me in the easy way
which you always used,
put no difference in your tone,
wear no forced air
of solemnity or sorrow.

 

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we shared together.
Let my name ever be
the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect,
without the trace of a shadow on it.

 

Life means all
that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is unbroken continuity.

 

Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

 

I am waiting for you,
for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just around the corner.

All is well.

 

Favorite Movies

East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, anything with Jimmy Stewart, Cinema Paradisio, anything with Jack Nicholson or Paul Newman

Favorite TV Shows

Boston Legal, West Wing, CNN, MSNBC, John Edward Cross Country

Activities

You can also view my website at: www.freewebs.com/dennyedwards

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