Copyright © 2024 by Edward L. Alban

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First Printing, 2024.

Edward L. Alban (Eddie to friends and colleagues) was born in Ecuador in 1938. He settled in Savannah, Georgia in 1952, and married his wife JoAnn in 1965. They raised two children together. A professor of Economics, he has taught at Auburn University, SUNY Potsdam, Armstrong State University and Savannah State University. He retired in 2000 and has been writing poetry and fiction ever since.In his retirement, he and JoAnn have traveled throughout Europe and South America, pursuing his new avocation for languages and literature and publishing poetry, fiction and nonfiction.