A very touching story, Paul, and always tough to say good-bye. She’s lucking to have such a loving grandfather. She’ll never forget the loving home she had with you and your wife. Kids just don’t forget that. While true the two of you are separated by geography, don’t think for a moment you’re separated in heart. You and Grace are soul mates forever!
Big hugs and cheers, Christine > On Jul 10, 2016, at 8:01 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. -- 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.
