True Winds of Change

At Home I at once realized there was little future for me in America.  So, I decided it would be best to restrict my search for love to foreign women.  To my fortune I met the most wonderful and beautiful woman from Ukraine.

 

 

While she was in the former Soviet Republic and I was stuck here in the USA on parole we corresponded via Instant Message, Email, and Video Conference, which was all very new -- not only to me -- but also to the world.   We did this for nearly three year.  Needless to say, in spite of the use of the internet, telephone bills were huge!   

A month after our first correspondence I told her my life story and I also told her that I could not leave the USA for three years while I was on parole.   

I promised her that I would be in Ukraine the very first month that I was off of parole… I honored my promise and I am very fortunate that she waited for me. 

Once in Ukraine I saw that it was as beautiful as she was, and I realized that it had so much more freedoms than Americans can only dream of.   I spent 6 weeks with her on my first visit and then I made a series of shorter visits.

I knew from our very first meeting that this was the woman of my dreams and that I was going to marry her. 

Within a year after my visit we were married and she was here in the USA with me. 

THANK YOU (Led Zeppelin)

Eddy & Natalya's Video:

We still plan to retire in Ukraine. Changing my life was the best thing I have ever done! 

We have a wonderful life together.  However, my heart still aches because I was not able to tell my former wife that I am sorry for the way our lives together turned out. I regret not being able to wish her all of the best that this life has to offer her. 

And -- above all -- I will always have an empty feeling and a pain in my heart for my three children...Eddy, Shelly, and Cheri.