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Wayne Dombroski -
On February 19th just past, I woke up with Bell's Palsy - a complete facial paralysis
on one side which took three months to correct itself. The next day I received a letter
reminding me that 2003 would be my 40th high school reunion - this is NOT a great
way to start off any week! Since Erica & Linda instigated this 'memory bender'
I thought it only right to begin thirty-eight years ago remembering a hay ride date with Erica who was paying more attention to Frank Scott than me, and having a crush on Linda without a clue what to do about it (duh) - should have known then
life wasn't going to be easy.
Miscellaneous administration jobs paid for nine months in Europe, back home and more work raised enough to run away to Australia for a year, back home,
married within three months and moved to Vancouver eight months later (1972). Did the work thing till BC's economy collapsed in the late '80's and put me out of work,
started a small wholesale giftware business and went into retail (not the brightest
thing I ever did), separated from my wife in 1990 after 18 years (she's now my best
friend) and moved to Washington State for nine years. (Whew !)
In 1999 returned to BC with my new singer/songwriter love of 5 years JON (that's right JON, not Joan or Jane, but JON - ya gotta figure Erica & Linda
are partly responsible for this - grin!) and our boy Bayley - relax, he's four legged.
While neither rich nor famous (yet) my life has been anything but mundane and is
perhaps the reason there's a sign over my desk that says 'GET IN, SIT DOWN, SHUT UP & HANG ON '! In addition to the giftware business, JON and I also
have a music recording studio from which we released his first solo album in 1999
and you can hear it at www.johewado.com (song #1 on the album was actually written for me which I would never have imagined in 1963).
We have taken license in renaming this year ' 2001 - a jonwayne odyssey ' (a la Stanley
Kubrick) as I write my book for Oprah's book club and together
we work at getting JON onto the music charts, and as I write this there are some
potentially exciting things happening!
It may take till 2003, but I am determined to figure out what ' IT ' is ! (Rent the movie City Slickers and let me know if you have the answer).
My best to you all. Wayne