Very well-said, Becky. And thank you for following the search notes before it even became such an interesting story through the additional anecdotes of Victor and Sheila. What good fortune to have them join us and participate!
Thank you, too, to everyone else for the well-wishes in my search and for following along this trail, even when sometimes I had to stop along the path to tend to other life events. I wonder if this feels slightly like what people running marathons feel like.....you have some friends run with you that motivate you; you have others that are there at stopping points to give you water and encouragement--so necessary to keep going!--and in this case, you have new friends that join in and run with you part of the way until you reach the finish line.
I'll probably never run a real marathon in my life, but if this is my virtual marathon, I can't think of better people to 'run' it with than all of you! Thanks for hanging in there with me and helping propel this search forward!
And Victor and Sheila, thank you, again, for breathing new life into this search. It would have been awhile longer before I invested myself in this thread and this quest again if you two hadn't popped in here.
