A big piece of my heart and my life experience belongs to two of my most favorite people; David and Elizabeth Hunter. On April Fool’s Day, 1986 I opened a business called Lombard Business Centre in downtown Winnipeg. It would put me on a 7 year plus journey of entrepreneurial terror, successes and failures; life and love lessons, a rogues gallery of characters that string together on this common thread that is the business centre). It would bring people into my world like a rare ornament (Ann Gaskin) and it would witness life do its regular tossabout on those people near and dear to me.
I opened my doors for business April 1st, and a few days later I had my first success: I signed David Hunter, Western Regional Sales Manager, Provincial Papers, Abitibi Price to an office lease at my centre, and in doing so, I had signed “my oldest living client”, Mr. Hunter, Shiny Paper Salesman, ; the “Cuban” – “Chew gotcha take yourself down a notch or two my friend, you’re strung waaaaaayyyyyyyy tooooo tight”!
I had just met one of my lifetime friends, the friend I consider my bother, David.
And, then, along comes Elizabeth!
An extra! A bonus! A Surprise! A trusted friend. A partner in crime. A confident. Miss Vermont. A twisted sister. The face of friendship through tears on my heartbreak. You have given me so much strength, I thank you.
So post some stories. One way is to email the story to my daughter Ryann at ryann.mccorkell@gmail.com and she will post.
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