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    An Extra Ordinary Life
    An Extra Ordinary Life
    An Extra Ordinary Life
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    An Extra Ordinary Life

    By Maria Haendel Koonce

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    Many years ago, after Bill and I returned from conducting a teacher training session, we were having lunch in our Florida room, rehashing the experience and laughing at our mishaps. A young man, Bruce, was busy building a new wet bar for us when he interrupted his work to inquire. Excuse me, but I am in the middle of a nasty divorce, and you two seem to have such a happy relationship. What does it take?

    Taken off guard, we improvised. A good sense of humor, a common interest, mutual respect . . . When Bruce started to leave, I stopped him. Bruce, it is none of the above. It is loving each other.

    Since then, I have been mulling it over. What exactly does marital love consist of? Maybe it actually is all of the above, but I sense that manifestations of a real caring for each other vary with idiosyncrasies, personalities, moods, and circumstances. As romantic love settles into daily routines with memories and histories to bind us tighter and tighter together, we become one. Almost literally, we are one body and one being, feeling the good and the bad in each other like Siamese twins in one body, one mind, one heart!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateAug 1, 2017
    ISBN9781524696979
    An Extra Ordinary Life
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    Maria Haendel Koonce

    Dr. Maria H. Koonce first came to East Carolina University in Greenville, NC from Uruguay with an Exchange Student Fulbright Scholarship. In her first week there, she met Bill, her Gringo, and both their lives changed course. They married and had their first child in Uruguay, but returned to the United States to continue their education. She became an educator in the areas of Foreign Languages and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), teaching in secondary and higher education institutions. In 1976, Bill and Maria, with their two children moved to Florida. Maria earned a Doctor’s Degree, became an Adjunct Professor at Florida Atlantic University, and was appointed Coordinator of the Adult ESOL program in Broward County. She has also represented the county in the Florida State Practitioners Task Force since its inception in 1996. This opened many doors for her as consultant, trainer, translator, and author. Since they retired in 2007, Maria and Bill embraced their Golden Age, moving to a Retirement Community in Cocoa, undertaking a vibrant life-style full of new challenges, including world- wide travel and adventure.

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