I'm sure you'll be missing both Gracie and your daughter terribly, Paul, one can only hope that Houston works for them both. Like so many others on the list, I almost feel I know Gracie after so many photos of her, and showing her being very happy living with you. It was surely a very precious time, and hopefully she will never forget it.
John in Brisbane >> On Jul 10, 2016, at 6:01 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
