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MEET TH E TH OMPS O N S Interview by Anne Schmidt
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uring the pandemic we have been blessed with many new participants and members who have found a way to become part of our community despite us having limited opportunities to gather. One such couple came to us last April and off icially joined months before they were able to set foot on our campus. Please meet Alyson and Kurt Thompson.
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Kurt is from Sherrill, New York, and Alyson is from Austin, Texas. We met and married in Denver, Colorado, in the Episcopal Church in May 2001. Kurt works as an insurance underwriter until August 2021 when he will retire! Alyson worked as an internist/ nephrologist for 24 years in direct patient care, most recently with Parkland, before starting work from home with an insurance company in December 2019. Kurt is an audiophile, mostly jazz and classical, and enjoys a good beer. He was very athletic before a skiing accident in February 1972 when he was a freshman in college. Alyson enjoys organic gardening with native plants and she absolutely loves cats. She was a Peace Corps volunteer and really enjoys learning about language. We adopted our daughter from China when she was 10 months old, and she will soon be off to college in California to study business.
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