Paul,
It's a touching story and so sad for you.
You've had a tough year.  I hope the next will be better.
And keep in touch with your family, you'll need them.
Regards,  Bob S.

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 8:01 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
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