and the Light Strikes Home
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And the Light Strikes Home is the memoir of a marriage, the almost-60 year union between Ned Tranel and Virginia Holmberg, an alliance that began as a blind date on Friday, the 13th of May, 1955 and continued until Neds death on April 14, 2016. If the measure of a marriage is longevity, this is the story of a successful union, elusive moments of happiness that go by in a blink and often are recognized only in hindsight. But it is also the story of misunderstanding, loneliness, disagreement, discouragement, doubt--both spouses wondering how they could have done better, been more understanding, patient, thoughtful, loving. Ultimately, it is a story of Trying. Trying and failing and Trying again. The narrative opens in the final semester of Virginias senior year at Clarke, Dubuques Catholic college for women. She is engaged to a former high school classmate, an Army private stationed in Germany. The senior prom is approaching. She wants to attend, but has no one to take her, as people said then, as if she were an umbrella. A friend recommends a nice guy in his final year at Loras, Dubuques Catholic college for men, a smart, unsophisticated guy who spent the past three years in a dorm designated for young men whove expressed interest in becoming a priest. A nice guy named Ned, six feet tall, dark hair, studious brown eyes, neither timid nor ill-at-ease, instead a kid out for recess, compensating for musical deficits by stepping to the beat of his own drummer. At evenings end, undaunted by the engagement ring on Virginias left hand, he kisses her good night, generously and with fervor. She kisses him back. And their story begins. ?Virginia Tranel was born and raised in Dubuque, Iowa, and graduated from C
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