Dennis Vinar, is a salesman, with his own business for over 40 years, inventor, speaker, and now an author who lives in Northfield, Minnesota with his wife Karen. Dennis enjoys art, music (especially concerts at Orchestra Hall), nature, reading, traveling, bicycling, exercising, photography and golf. Dennis is the leader for the Minnesota Chapter of the Non-Fiction Author Association. Dennis and Karen arrived at the idea of writing a memoir on their wedding day in 2015.

Karen Lehmann Vinar, an interior designer and kitchen and bath designer for over 40 years. Karen enjoys art, attending musical and theatrical performances, reading, nature, and gardening. Currently, she has a woman-owned business.

Dennis and Karen are the authors of a book about their love story, titled How did you find me... after all of these years? The story begins in the late 1950's, when a shy, 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old, outgoing boy fall in love in a small Midwestern town, population 695, their happiness is short-lived when they discover she is pregnant. Forced by their very young ages and family expectations, they placed their child for adoption and separate -- each living their lives apart for 53 years. But a corner of Dennis' heart still belonged to Karen. Despite the many passing years, Dennis never forgets his first love. With persistence and determination, he searches for and finds his lost love, and later, together they find their daughter. Love is not what you say; love is what you feel. Like many adopted people, their daughter, who lived a happy life, had spent a lifetime looking for someone she resembled, and for acceptance and a way to feel whole.