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Love goes the distance
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WSO conductor Alexander Mickelthwate and fashion-designer wife Abigail.
TALK about a Rocky Mountain High.
Abigail Camp and Alexander Mickelthwate met at summer camp in the mountains of Colorado. Just in time for Valentine's Day, Abigail shared their love story:
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"We've been together since I was 15 and he was 16. We've known each other 25 years!"
The handsome young man came to camp all the way from Germany.
"We became pen pals when he went back to Germany. When I was 16, he said, "Why don't you come and visit me?"
Abigail confesses her mom was interested in getting her away from certain friends in America and took her travelling to Europe. "Mom said, 'You and I are going to stop and see your pen pal.' "
"Alexander introduced me to his friends and took me to the Frankfurt Opera. He was studying music and had decided he wanted to be a conductor. We reconnected when I was 19 in San Francisco in fashion school. We were in love, but nobody believed us."
Then Abigail moved to New York City -- the fashion mecca -- and worked for big fashion houses. It was long-distance love for a long, long time.
"(Alexander) got accepted to Peabody (Institute) in 1996, and we were finally in the same city after four years of being lovesick."
They married in 1997.
-- Maureen Scurfield
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 12, 2012 A8
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