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    Wings of Fate
    Wings of Fate
    Wings of Fate
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    Wings of Fate

    By Curt H. von Dornheim

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    About two years ago I had the exceedingly wonderful privilege to meet Hanna Taube one Saturday afternoon as I was antique hunting in her extraordinary shop of fine lamps and imported antiques in Lambertville, NJ. She immediately caught my attention; a scent of 4711 perfume faintly surrounded her, an air of refreshment. She stood roughly 5’ 6”--- and elegant, with an impressive style of fashion and a simple coiffure of slim, gold and silver threads perfectly held by a single pin in a chignon. There was a twinkle in her soft blue eyes that suggested genuine friendliness and knowledge. As she greeted me and bid me welcome I noticed a slight Germanic accent in her British form of English.

    We chatted briefly and I made it my business to revisit her shop again, a few weeks later. This time we spoke in German and I was utterly charmed by this dignified lady. Well, in short, we became friends and I looked forward to my Saturday visits to her shop. It gave me not only the rare opportunity to speak German for a half hour, but also to slowly build a highly prized friendship with a lady my age who understood people. She took people at the value of their lives. Rich, poor, young, old, gay or straight played no role with her. Often we would have delightful laughs at life in general. Eventually we dropped the “Sie” and began to use the “du” form of German. This meant we were personal friends, like sister and brother.

    She read some of the metaphysical books I had written and it seemed to bring us closer together. Then one unfortunate day she became hospitalized to have surgery performed on her neck, to help alleviate a numbing sensation in her right arm. I visited her in clerics at the hospital and we prayed together. And again visited at her home, also in Bucks County, PA. She mended quickly and I invited her to my Christmas Eve organ recital. It was then when she presented me with a gift, simply wrapped in a plastic bag. I immediately told her that I didn’t want to begin exchanging Christmas presents, but she interrupted my refusal by telling me it was not a Christmas present, but rather a wooden, hand carved plate that she had treasured for almost fifty years. AND, that if I didn’t choose to accept it she would understand. I unceremoniously accepted it from her and was quite impressed with the artistic measure of the wood carving.

    Now, I’m not the sort of guy who has any religious wall hangings in my home, and there looking me sadly in the face was an eleven inch oak carving with the head of the crucified Christ. She told the story of who carved it, where it was carved, when it was carved and why it was carved. She also said that the more she got to know me, the more I reminded her of Rudy Hoffen.

    This is a terrific love story; however, the names have all been changed to protect the guilty! Guilty? Shouldn’t it be the innocent? NO! Since I don’t want any damn law suits I’ve changed the identity of the ignorant, fearful, weak and guilty!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCurt H. von Dornheim
    Release dateAug 15, 2012
    ISBN9781476487410
    Wings of Fate
    Author

    Curt H. von Dornheim

    Curt H. von Dornheim is a well-traveled Creative Consciousness inspirational lecturer and teacher. He is also a published author, an organist and choral director plus a retired non-denominational minister.

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      Wings of Fate - Curt H. von Dornheim

      Wings of Fate

      The Forbidden Love Between Two Men

      Book V – Creative Consciousness Series

      Curt H. von Dornheim

      Copyright©Curt H. von Dornheim 2012

      Published by Creative Consciousness Publications at Smashwords

      Scanning, uploading and/or distribution of this book via the Internet, print, audio recordings or any other means without the permission of the Publisher is illegal and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, places, events and characters are fictitious in every regard. Any similarities to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      ISBN - 9781476487410

      Copyright©2012 Curt H. von Dornheim

      All rights reserved. Except for review purposes, the reproduction of this book in whole or part, electronically or mechanically, constitutes a copyright violation.

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      Creative Consciousness Publications

      Contact Curt H. von Dornheim

      curthvd@verizon.net

      Wings of Fate

      The Forbidden Love Between Two Men

      Book V – Creative Consciousness Series

      By

      Curt H. von Dornheim

      This book was inspired by a TRUE love story and is dedicated to

      MHM.

      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Chapter One: The Source if This Story

      Chapter Two: Memories

      Chapter Three What More Is There to Say?

      Chapter Four: "Why?- When?

      Other Books

      Epilogue: So Be It

      Prologue

      I honest to God do have a terrific, love story to tell. A book that is, well, let’s just say, a grand sandwich with lots of tasty tidbits thrown between. In the Prologue I’ll tell you some information about me. The following chapters will discuss the story, while I add my two-cents here and there. And after the last chapter will be the Epilogue.

      By way of introduction I’m Christian Dietrich. Now that’s Christian ~ NOT Marlene ~ so don’t be wise ass about my name because is not only suits me, but I like it as well. Although I’m not a fanatic Trinitarian, I do try to live like the human Jesus taught. And Dietrich in German means master-key which opens many locks. And that’s me.

      I’m neither a fem nor a butch skinhead. I’m six feet two inches tall, weigh 190 pounds, with blond hair, blue eyes and I like to smile a lot. Not bad looking either. And I’m not really egotistical, but hell, you should a basic description. I wear slacks, shirts and sweaters from so-called bygone, good ‘ole gay days, when we dressed in sporty and colorful rather than bleak and tasteful. Never tee-shirts, and if we wore jeans they were pressed with a crease that could cut cheese. I still don a form fitting white shirt, with jeans and moccasins, when I go out. And that’s not bad for a guy in his seventies who could pass for forty-nine.

      My partner of fifteen years passed several years ago. Now I live alone, in a small convertible stable, in pastoral Bucks County, PA. The so-called genius belt of the east coast. I’m a stone’s throw west of the Delaware River and just a few miles from the cozy, gay resort complex, The Magpie, in New Hoppe. A place where good food and fun are partners.

      German was my first language, but English came quickly. I was raised Protestant, but fast to say we were quite liberal. I studied organ and choir directing at college in London. And then studied theology at a liberal seminary in New York.

      For twenty years I taught at a Roman Catholic grammar school in mid-town NYC, where I was also the organist and choir master. I’ve given my share of organ recitals, including on the largest playing pipe organ in the world on the Wanamaker Department Store organ in Philadelphia. Then for another ten years I held a similar position in Key West, Florida.

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