Donald G. Havlish Jr.: A Love That
Almost Wasn't
As
love stories go, the tale of Fiona and Donald G. Havlish
Jr., well, it almost never happened.
While a mutual friend pleaded for months with Mrs.
Havlish to meet her future husband, a senior vice
president at Aon, she resisted, convinced, though she had
never seen him, that the relationship would never work.
"Guys do not like women with two kids," Mrs. Havlish told
the friend.
But the friend persisted, cleverly arranging a meeting
of the two at a corporate picnic. Mr. Havlish was the
tall, dark-haired stranger with the quick laugh and the
bouquet of spring flowers. "I just fell in love with his
sense of humor," Mrs. Havlish said. Two months later, the
two were engaged. They married a year and half later, on
a beach in Bermuda, at sunset. Mrs. Havlish's children
became his children, soon joined by a daughter of their
own.
It is a story, one of many that Mrs. Havlish is saving
for Michaela, 4, whose smile would send her 53-year-old
father racing home to Yardley, Pa. "I tell her that Daddy
is still watching over us, that he'll always love
her."
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