Cynthia Mayasich Lorimer:  

I got married the first time at age 18, straight after graduation, to Jim Schneider. That marriage lasted 5 years, with us living in Garden Grove, and then Westminster, CA, for a while. After I left Jim, I lived for a while with Bill Goodykoontz, in Huntington Beach, CA. Bill was a teacher I met in a workshop at Goldenwest College. I attended Goldenwest College for a couple of years, studying art, psychology, and dance, where I met Dan Shapiro, a choreographer who directed a piece I performed there. I eventually moved to NYC to live with my Dan. We got married, but that didn't last too long, and he ran off with another dancer. Shortly after he left, I met Nicholas Lorimer, who became the father of both of my sons, Alex and Max. We all moved to Brooklyn, NY, in 1988. We were married exactly 10 years before divorcing. I met my current husband, Lou Rosenberg, through a mutual friend, and we have been together for 15 years now, though we only married 4 years ago. We couldn't get married before that because my son, Max, is autistic, and I couldn't get married before he turned 18 without losing his Medicaid and SSI benefits. Max still lives with me and Lou, and attends a Day-Hab program daily, in Brooklyn. They are still looking for a job that Max both enjoys, and is good at. My older son, Alex, is an architect, living in Brooklyn with his girlfriend. Although I originally moved to New York to be a dancer, I quickly learned that the real life day to day grind of that lifestyle was not for me, so I went back to college and got a degree in psychology. I had intended on going further in my studies to get a PhD in psychology, but when my second son was born with autism, I pretty much put that on the back burner. By then, I had become a successful medical illustrator and computer artist, so I wasn't really too interested in going back to school, but I still always had it in the back of my m...Expand for more