At 09:32 PM 2/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi listfriends,
>
>I'm very pleased to inform you about a big change in the life of two of
>your listmembers. What is the big change and who are those two and what
>does it have to do with Parkinson's? Why is this non-pd info on the list?
>All questions on which the patient reader will get an answer. And patients
>are we all so we have learned to be patient, because you have to be patient
>when you are waiting as a patient in the waiting room of the neurologist
>till he yells :"next patient".
>
>Okay, here I go with my explanation. The first listmember is Faye Armstrong
>and the second one is me. Faye is a general surgeon and knows some about
>Parkinson's and became a member of this list, because a friend of hers has
>Parkinson's. Well, that friend is me, Kees Paap from Holland. We met when
>she was on holidays in Holland and as we met, we fell in love. So much in
>love, we call that "love at first sight", that we can't live without each
>other.
>
>I told Faye about my PD and she knows exctly what it is but her answer was
>that health is not important if one loves somebody, even if a severe
>disease as PD is involved. Yesterday she said to me (when I was very off)
>"I love you, Kees Paap whether you have PD or not, are on or off, because
>inside you is the man I love", and she helped me button my sleeves for a
>dinner special organized for organ donation awareness.
>
>The fact that I'm 12 years older doesn't effect her love for me. Well I
>think that somebody who says such things about the person whom she loves
>very much, must be very much in love with that person. And Faye is very
>much in love with me and I'm very much in love with her.
>
>I love Faye very much and I want to be with her day and night. So I asked
>her to marry me and she said yes. We can't send everyone an invitation by
>snail mail that's why we do it in this way. Here is the text of the card
>which is folded in three pieces. There are beautiful flowers on it.
>
>side 1 :
>                        Faye
>                                and
>                                        Kees
>
>                                February 21, 1998
>
>side 2 :
>
>Kees asked Faye to marry him, and she said "Yes!"
>   Since then, their love has grown deeper, so
>            He will ask her again on
>           Saturday, February 21, 1998
>
>           Faye Armstrong and Kees Paap
>            together with her parents
>          Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Armstrong
>     Invite you to join them to hear the answer
>            and celebrate their wedding
>            at Robinson Church of Christ
>          428 Chado Lane, Robinson, Texas.
>                6.30 in the evening.
>
>     Reception following in the fellowship hall.
>
>
>side 3 :
>
>      When the doors of the arrival hall closed,
>           you opened the door to my heart.
>    And the earth seemed to have stopped turning,
>       to me, eternity started at that moment.
>         At that instant, words didn't exist,
>         I needed a thousand words to decribe,
>         My mind only thought in superlatives.
>         Surround me with your sunny universe,
>              embrace me with your ocean,
>                give me air to breathe
>              and I will be yours forever.
>    no cloud, storm or pollution will seperate us,
>     and God will smiles as He sees His children,
>   Loving each other like he wants all people to do.
>
>
>Please see this as a sincere invitation. If you desire to come, please
>phone or email us and we will give you directions to the church and
>information about an inexpensive hotel-accomodation.
>
>Faye Armstrong and
>Kees Paap
>
>
>P.S. Phone nr. 254 751 7619
>
Hi Faye and Kees!!!!!

Congratulations and best wishes for many years of wedded bliss.


Bill & Jackie Butch
Jacksonville, Fla.