Ahh - True love knows no bounds.... But did she move with him to New Jersey for love or for the hippo?
Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On Wed, Sep 21, 2016, at 04:20 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:47 AM, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > > It looks like an inflateable.. interesting that it is metal > > > I misspoke (or mis-typed). It's actually made of concrete, not metal. > > http://oldwickanimalhospital.com/?page_id=93 > > When first I photographed the Oldwick Hippo, I parked my car and walked > up > to the building. It was a Sunday, and the animal hospital was closed, > but > a man came out of the hospital to ask what I was doing. When I explained > that I had passed it by several times and was curious, and wanted to take > its portrait, he invited my up onto the lawn for a better viewpoint. The > story he told me was quite different than what appears on FarceBook and > he > hospital website. He said that he was an engineer, and had been working > for a firm in the midwest. He met a young woman who was them in > veterinary > school, and fell in love. Just as she was graduating, he was relocated > back to New Jersey. He asked her to marry him, and come back east with > him. She told him she could never do that because she would have to > leave > the concrete hippo that she had come to love. He claimed that then he > bought the hippo, at an inflated price, loaded it onto a trailer and told > her that if she ever wanted to see the hippo again, she would have to > marry > him and move back to New Jersey. Impressed that he would do that just to > please her, she said yes, and they moved to the horse country of Oldwick, > NJ, where she set up her practice in a building he designed and built. > > Whether that is the truth or not, that is one great story. > > Dan > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > -- > 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. -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- 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.
