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He was a little over a year into a planned five-year trip around the world in the early '70s when he docked his rebuilt 1924 classic motor yacht, "Westward," in a remote cove in Spain.
Donald Gumpertz reached for his ham radio. It was time.
"Anna Louise, I'm flying home tomorrow," he said. "What do you say we get married?"
Sounds great, said the IBM corporate executive he had met in a UCLA sensitivity training seminar a few years earlier.
Where are we going on our honeymoon, Anna Louise Rataichak wanted to know?
How about the rest of the way around the world?
And that's what they did. Lived this fantasy life together for more than 35 years on water and land until Anna Louise died in December of a...
