Chapter 163 Section 12

For the next two summers, Catherine obtained a position as a trainee engineer at Hughes Engineering Company in Lancaster and W. M. Piatt Company in Durham. In 1975, Katherine married Fred immediately after graduating from the University. The husband and wife stayed in school to continue their studies, and each received a master's and doctor's degree two years later. The young and promising Ewats found their ideal jobs easily. Fred was doing research at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and Catherine was working as an engineer in a subsidiary of the Merck Group. At that time, Aiwaite's family was located in Maryland, near Washington, the capital of the United States. On April 27, 1982, the birth of their daughter Caitlin Fronika Aivart pushed this small family to the pinnacle of luck and happiness, because Catherine, like many intellectual women, spent a lot of money Jin was pregnant and had to have a caesarean section to give birth to the child.

When Kaitlyn was two, her 85-year-old maternal grandfather, John Hunter, died of illness.Caitlin was too young to be impressed.In fact, Caitlin experienced "life" before experiencing "death". One day, Catherine took Caitlin to the Washington Zoo, and happened to meet a giraffe giving birth to a deer. To commemorate this special event, the mother and daughter went to the gift shop of the zoo to pick out a doe and a deer pattern. A breakfast plate, and a coffee cup with the same pattern.From then on, on Catherine's birthday, Kaitlyn would use this set of tableware to cook breakfast for her mother herself, so as to comfort mothers all over the world for their hard work in raising children.

In 1986, at the same time that Mike Peterson led his family back to the United States from West Germany, the three members of the Alvart family also moved back to Durham with Fred's new job and bought a house in Forest Hills.Catherine took this opportunity to give herself a year-long vacation until June of the following year when she joined Northern Telecom. The original English name of Northern Telecom was Northern Telecom, and not many people may know it.Later, Nortel, which was combined or simplified by the first three letters of the two words, became well-known in the IT (Information Technology) industry at the turn of the century.The headquarter of Northern Telecommunications Company is located in Toronto, Canada. The place where Catherine works is not actually in Durham, but more than ten miles south of Durham. The city makes up the center of the "Golden Triangle of North Carolina".Catherine had studied civil engineering, and Northern Telecom had done electrical engineering, so she had to start all over again, at the lowest level as a trainee engineer.Catherine's knowledge and ability were quickly recognized by the company, and she was soon promoted to a higher management level.

However.Her marriage and family situation is not satisfactory.I don't know when, Fred began to communicate frequently with one of his female colleagues, and even blatantly brought him to Aiwat's house.I don't know when, Fred started to move out for a few days, and then moved back.The Alvart family of three took their last vacation to Walt Disney World in Florida, and shortly after returning to Durham, Fred moved out for good. A few doors down the same street, the Petersons' marriage was also shaky.When Catherine asked her 8-year-old daughter for advice, Caitlin only thought that she could get along with Margaret and Martha day and night, as if living a family that would never end.As for Mike Peterson, it was just the background of the picture, the foil for the Ratley sisters, like a two-for-one deal in a store.

However, the Hunter family has some opinions on the relationship between Catherine and Mike Peterson.Catherine was divorced at the time, but Mike was still married.For more than a year, the elder sister, Candice Zamblini, had not spoken to Catherine. But no matter what, Catherine and Mike lived together unmarried.Soon, he moved into No. 1810 Side Street, located in the center of Forest Hills, in a decent manner. At this time, because of the title of "New York Times best-selling author", Mike Peterson is already worth a hundred times, which is not what it used to be, and the market is bullish.Catherine is such a hospitable and generous hostess, the big house of the Peterson family soon became a salon frequented by local literary and artistic circles.Catherine has hosted post-concert tea receptions at her home, fundraisers for the Carolina Ballet, for the Durham Dance Festival, for the Durham Museum of Art, and more.

The living room of Peterson's house is also arranged like a museum, with Japanese furniture with a history of more than 200 years, decorated with antiques from Germany and around the world, including a porcelain vase from the Ming Dynasty in China. In 1994, the first crisis occurred in this outwardly harmonious house of restructuring.Mike Peterson's eldest son, Clayton, returned to Durham to attend the Duke's University after graduating from middle school in Germany. He was soon disciplined by the school for drunk driving and so on.Clayton not only did not change his past, but intensified, stole the equipment used by the school as a student ID card, and tried to ignite a self-made detonator on campus. After being discovered by relevant departments, he reported to the police, and Clayton Peterson was sentenced to 4 years in prison. Years and 1 month, fine and compensation of 1712.55 US dollars.

In 1996, Mike Peterson's third novel "Peace and Reparations" was renamed "Bitter Peace" and published.The book takes the Vietnam War peace talks in the early 1970s as the background, and tells the diplomacy of the United States in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.The content of the book not only deals with Vietnam, but also describes major events such as the death of the Shah of Iran and the negotiations with Khomeini.In an interview with Durham's Herald Sun, Mike told reporters that he has written more than 300 pages for his next book. Mike Peterson's next book is not fiction, but nonfiction, about a homosexual scandal in the military, tentatively titled "Gays in the Military."Mike writes during the day, and when the children are about to come home from school at 4 pm, he goes out to the nearby fitness center YMCA to exercise, and usually does not come back until around 7 pm.Catherine always had supper ready, and no matter how much the children urged her, she did not serve it until her husband came home.

It was also in this year that after several years of protracted battles, Mike and Padisia finally completed the divorce procedures. On the last day of 1996, Mike Peterson took Catherine to a New Year's Eve party at a country club and proposed to her on his knees as the clock struck the new year. On June 27, 1997, the couple tied the knot after nearly nine years of love. Among the guests who came to congratulate them were representatives of George Ratley's family.The next day, Mike and Catherine traveled east to Europe to spend their honeymoon in London and Paris.