Emil pours everyone another cup of coffee, “Jackie, you know
that Norway probably has the most coffee drinkers per capita? This coffee is from Grunerlokka
micro-roastery in Norway. We like our
dark roast coffee. And black coffee is better than any. You get the taste of the fruit and nuts used
to make the coffee. I’ve ordered a
special blend just for your wedding, Ingunn helped me pick it out.”
One may wonder what would inspire someone to work hard labor voluntarily. For me it’s the love of many things. It’s the passion that won’t be broken. Because there are so many aspects to such service for me, that it may seem beyond comprehension. I’d compare it to my youthful desire to enter the military as a young child. Then for a multitude of reasons only to follow through thirteen years later at age eighteen entering the Marines. There were things that followed me throughout my life. Sometimes they were questions of how I ever gave up my over decade’s life dream to become a New Jersey State Trooper. My childhood desire to never wed—to never have any serious relationships with another human being. I desired only service in military and law enforcement nearly my whole childhood. Too the extent that even one of my Marine Corps superiors expressed to me last July, “I never thought you’d ever get married. It just wasn’t who you were. You were always a loner.” I replied, “Yeah. I know.
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