Bless you Paul. Your love and caring for Grace will carry her through glorious womanhood with the benefit of your generous and wise influence. Am with you!
Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <pnstenqu...@mac.com> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2016 8:42:37 PM Subject: Re: Gone Thanks Godfrey. Yes, it will be 11 years August 15. I'm sure her picture was posted before a week had passed. Paul via phone > On Jul 10, 2016, at 10:17 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: > > You've choked me up, Paul. > I am sure it will be fine. We must let go and let our friends and family do > what they must. > May they have a good life in Houston. I'm sure you will stay close. > Hold fast and stay brave. All the best to you and the long memory of your > time with Grace. > > Is it really 11 years now? That's nearly as long as I've been on PDML. Wow. > > G > > "The only things truly worth having can only be given away. > Not bought, nor sold, nor held; just given. > The more you give them away, the more full your life becomes." > >> On Jul 10, 2016, at 6:01 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> Grace arrived 11 years ago on a flight from Scotland to Detroit, via >> Baltimore. It was an escape I had arranged, and I couldn’t breathe easy >> until I saw Grace and her mother descending the escalator from the flight >> deck. My wife and I met them and took them home. The next morning I got >> down on the floor and talked to Gracie — and photographed her — and we began >> to establish a powerful bond that included all manner of things, including >> cameras. In the years that followed there were parties, trips to the beach, >> an endless number of days at the park, games, meals, some wonderful friends >> in the neighborhood and more. And through it all, Gracie was my partner, and >> I documented it in photos, some 3,000 I believe. But the end was always >> inevitable and yesterday it came to pass at 8:40 am as Grace and her mother >> left for a new life in Houston, Texas. I had steeled myself against the >> inevitable, but once their truck was out of site, the tears flowed. Today >> hasn’t been easy, but I have learned about moving on, and I’m working on >> that. I’ll be good, and I trust that Gracie will as well. But I will love >> her deeply until the day I die. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18259241 > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
