Last night Desre and David Skype-phoned us from Toronto with the happy news that they are to be married in July, in a small private ceremony at the home of Desre's sister in Irvine, California (a little way south of Los Angeles). We are delighted for them. They are clearly a well-matched couple. Desre is a widow; her first husband died of cancer of the pancreas. David's marriage to Dorothyanne ended in an amicable divorce after 23 years and three grown up children. They face some logistic problems. David has just been appointed head of the department of politics and economics at the Royal Military College in Kingston; Desre is on the research staff of Waterloo University in the faculty of health studies; she is a PhD sociologist, and she lives in Toronto, commutes westward to Waterloo but works also from her Toronto home. David commutes to Toronto at weekends, and sometimes Desre commutes to Kingston when there is a function she wants to take part in, like some of the formal ceremonies and balls at RMC. It's an easy 2-hour commute by train, and they don't seem to mind or find it tedious. They will sort out their living arrangements in a few years when David's term as department head comes to an end. The photos above are of the happy couple at Christmas time and at a ball at RMC in September 2009. May they have long and happy lives together.
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