{"id":8,"date":"2020-01-29T19:51:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catehallahan.ca\/wordpress\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2020-07-10T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T17:02:50","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/catehallahan.ca\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"About Cate"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"8\" class=\"elementor elementor-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-af9c9a2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"af9c9a2\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-630bc70\" data-id=\"630bc70\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8704e07 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8704e07\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/catehallahan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_8576-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-image-38\" alt=\"Author Photo\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4cc5e540 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4cc5e540\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1e1c4651\" data-id=\"1e1c4651\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c40acbe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c40acbe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>About Cate<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-703385f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"703385f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-kerning: none;\">Born in St. Joseph\u2019s hospital Toronto on Christmas Day, 1953 Cate, along with three others who share her birth date, made the front page of <i>The Toronto Star<\/i>. Her first claim to fame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-kerning: none;\">Today Cate still resides in the suburb of Long Branch, a mile or so from where she was raised. When she looks out her dining room window, Cate can see where her father and his five siblings lived during the depression of the \u2018Dirty Thirties\u2019. She has planted strong roots in the community where, luckily, her daughter, grand-daughter and their significant others have also chosen to live. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-kerning: none;\">They say everything happens for a reason. It was 3,000 kilometers away, at a trade-show in Vancouver, where Cate met Michael, fortuitously also from Toronto.\u00a0 Married for 32 years, Cate and Michael share their lives surrounded by the companionship of friends and family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-kerning: none;\">As a child, Cate contracted Ocular Histoplasmosis Syndrome, an eye disease that eventually reduced her vision to the point that she was forced into early retirement from her 25-year career as an account executive with a direct marketing firm. Always a big reader, just as she was no longer able to see the printed word, audio books came on the market, saving her sanity. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-kerning: none;\">With the use of assistive devices, Cate began writing <i>Portals of Hope<\/i> in 2006 to help adjust to her new vision impairment and to aid in the healing process. Having suffered tragic family loss and illness, it was cathartic to pour her feelings onto the page. Nightly news programs supplied plenty of fodder for current issues that she deems injustices. 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