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Aug. 13: Date With Destiny

ast summer, when Huntington Woods native Lynn Desenberg
visited the Canyon Ranch Health Resort in Lenox, Mass., she
just wanted some sun, relaxation and exercise.
But her travel companion Laura Last Kay of West
Bloomfield used the trip as just one of many opportunities to try to
help her never-married best friend meet the man of her dreams.
my birthday," Desenberg, 38, says. "I
"It was Aug. 13 last year
saw a man on the tennis court in a wheelchair. Later, I saw him again
and pointed him our to Laura and
told her I thought he was cute:"
Desenberg remembers watching as
Kay approached Daniel Heumann,
informing him that he was going to
marry her friend Lynn.
During the 20 minutes the
women had before leaving the ranch
for home, Desenberg learned that
Heumann lived in a Maryland sub-
urb of Washington, D.C., but
would soon be visiting Chicago.
Desenberg, a Berkley High School
and University of Michigan gradu-
ate, moved to Chicago after com-
Danny and Lynn
pleting courses at Fordham
University Law School in New York.
She also discovered that her birthday, Aug. 13, was a depressing day
for Heumann. "It was the day his life was turned upside down," she
says of the car accident 15 years ago that left him a paraplegic.
In the years since, he attended college, became a lawyer and "basical-
ly put his life back together," says Desenberg, the North and South ,
American training director for Deloitte Consulting.
At 34, her fiance is vice-president of the Daniel Heumann Fund for
Spinal Cord Research, funding programs worldwide in areas he
describes as "breakthrough-type, aggressive research that others aren't
willing to try."
After a long-distance courtship, Heumann and Desenberg became
engaged. Heumann then moved to Chicago. "He has such a positive
attitude," Desenberg says of her fiance, a champion wheelchair-tennis
player, who also rides a converted arm-pedal bike.
"It's important for people to see life goes on," she says of their
upcoming Nov. 10 wedding. "Danny is almost always upbeat,"
Desenberg says. "But every year on Aug. 13, he remembers the day
that tragically changed his life."
But, she adds, "He now calls it the best day of his life — and the
day on which from now on he'll be lighting birthday candles." ❑

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