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Beyond Beyond: A Chance Encounter, a Digital Courtship, and the Language of Love
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You are never too old and it's never too late....
Beyond Beyond is today's version of 84, Charing Cross Road, via months of email correspondence chronicling the joys of living into one’s 80s and beyond.
The unlikely and extraordinary second-chance and real-life love story of Roz and Ralph, both 80-plus years old and living some 1,500 miles apart, Ralph in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Roz in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is told through months of rich email letters that document a common bond of incomparable coincidence, charm, wisdom, and wit.
Roz (a widow of many years and Karen’s and Steve's Mom) and Ralph (a recent widower and Mori’s Dad) invite you to join them on their very special journey…one that may inspire you, your loved ones or friends.
Offered an open-ended ticket and challenged to pursue a new life even in the time of Covid-19, Roz and Ralph could only wonder where their choices would take them "in this last beautiful chapter of our lives. We know in our hearts that we are meant to be together … to blend our separate lives together making us a couple who measure our living moments as our moments," but there was so much to consider.
For the first time ever, most people in the United States are living into their eighties.
This must-read for people in and approaching their eighties, and also for their families, is a multi-generational story of hope. It is an inspirational and uplifting gift to the elders in our lives. Readers, young and old alike will cherish this eye-opening and comforting dialogue as Roz and Ralph broach their pasts, attitudes, interests, secrets, concerns, purposes, and joys that lead them to finding unexpected happiness in their declining years.
With a special ribbon marker, this book will become a treasurable presence on bedside nightstands and bookshelves everywhere.
You are never too old and it's never too late....
Beyond Beyond is today's version of 84, Charing Cross Road, via months of email correspondence chronicling the joys of living into one’s 80s and beyond.
The unlikely and extraordinary second-chance and real-life love story of Roz and Ralph, both 80-plus years old and living some 1,500 miles apart, Ralph in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Roz in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is told through months of rich email letters that document a common bond of incomparable coincidence, charm, wisdom, and wit.
Roz (a widow of many years and Karen’s and Steve's Mom) and Ralph (a recent widower and Mori’s Dad) invite you to join them on their very special journey…one that may inspire you, your loved ones or friends.
Offered an open-ended ticket and challenged to pursue a new life even in the time of Covid-19, Roz and Ralph could only wonder where their choices would take them "in this last beautiful chapter of our lives. We know in our hearts that we are meant to be together … to blend our separate lives together making us a couple who measure our living moments as our moments," but there was so much to consider.
For the first time ever, most people in the United States are living into their eighties.
This must-read for people in and approaching their eighties, and also for their families, is a multi-generational story of hope. It is an inspirational and uplifting gift to the elders in our lives. Readers, young and old alike will cherish this eye-opening and comforting dialogue as Roz and Ralph broach their pasts, attitudes, interests, secrets, concerns, purposes, and joys that lead them to finding unexpected happiness in their declining years.
With a special ribbon marker, this book will become a treasurable presence on bedside nightstands and bookshelves everywhere.
204 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 17, 2022
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September 19, 2023
A chance encounter followed by a series of honest funny and endearing emails between Roz and Ralph over two years results in this delightful intimate epistolary that is both uplifting and inspiring. It is never too late to find love.
September 12, 2023
Beyond Beyond is a delightful read. Told through a year-long exchange of emails, the account affords readers to be privy to the evolving relationship that began with a chance meeting. Roz is a retired high school teacher, mother of two and has four grandchildren; Ralph Insinger is a retired architect, father of a son and has two grandchildren. Both are widowed, but they have full lives. And those full lives and interests unfold through their thoughts and accounts of daily happenings. Just as Roz and Ralph looked forward to one another's emails (and then phone calls), readers will keep turning the pages and get wrapped up in the wit and wisdom of two engaging writers. Highy recommended.
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