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Christmas 2008

Hello Everyone,

I hope I find you in good health and a secure future. It has been one hell of a year for all of us I am sure.

Another year has passed and Cathy my Sweety is very much still in my every day thoughts. Not a year, a month a day passes by without me thinking about Cathy Bynum Maurer. She is still and will always be dear to me and is such a wonderful woman that I feel so proud to have known and loved and be loved by.

This year, 2008, has been an interesting year. I have been working all over Europe , France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and the UK and it looks like I’ll get to work in the US in 2009, fingers crossed. Not sure where or when, but I’m sure it will be beautiful and enjoyable when it happens.

I am one of the luckiest men in the world. I was and still am in love with a beautiful woman from the States, who loved me equally and as much. Cathy showed me so many things and introduced me to all of you. I cannot thank her enough.

As you know I remarried last year to a wonderful woman called Dominique who is so much in love with me and me with her that I cannot believe my life still exists. When Cathy was taken away my life was taken away. I had no desire to continue, but I knew I had to as it was what my Sweety wanted. I made a few early mistakes, but after a while I began to take my life back. Eventually I met Dominique and we hit it off almost immediately. To this day we are still deeply in love and every day brings new and deeper happiness. I am so so lucky and fortunate.

This year my first trip to the States consisted of a March 13^th visit to Denver, for Cathy’s birthday where I laid some irises on her memorial in the Denver Botanic Gardens. My next visit to the States was with Dominique in November. We came over on the 11^th and stayed on Miami Beach. During our visit we drove down to the Florida Keys on Dominique’s birthday on the 13^th November and paid a visit to the Everglades National Park to see the alligators without much success.

We thoroughly enjoyed our visit and loved having some sunshine for the first time this year. We are already planning our trip next year.

During this year Susan, Cathy’s sister contacted me to talk about a project that she was planning. She is hoping to obtain a grant early in 2009 that will allow here to visit Europe and stay in Munich for a couple of weeks and travel throughout Europe “through her sister’s eyes” as Susan has called her trip. I have had opportunities to travel to Munich in recent years, but I have never been able to do it until know. I think this visit by Susan will enable me to finally visit those places that I have not been able to without Cathy and ultimately it will enable me to finally close some of the gaps in my life that I have not been able to do myself.

As time goes by I can’t imagine how I have started my life yet again. I am so fortunate. I still cannot believe it. Here is wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Much health and happiness in 2009 to all.

Je t’aime Je t’aime Je t’aime

Eddy XXX

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