The first true love of my life, Bliss Arneberg. (Photo taken in 2019, a year before she died at age seventy-one from cancer.)
I met her in 1968 at Pocono Manor Inn. We were in a show the hotel put on featuring staff folks called "It's a Groovy Time."
We were inseparable that summer, but our love could not continue.
By the fall, she returned to Cornell, and I went to the US Navy Boot Camp in Great Lakes.
Bliss was survived by her husband of 30 years, Tom Ireland, whose family owned Pocono Manor.
