Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Cancer Story with some Joy
From: "\(SonC\) Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:29:24 -0500
References: <002d01c1ed75$f59f5120$6f31aaac@sonc> <002301c1ed7e$390cffe0$633f4d18@gv.shawcable.net>

Thank you Ted,  for your continued encouragement.  One thing you've reminded
me is that when we show other people's courage, it builds it in us.

Sonny

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Cancer Story with some Joy


> Hi Sonny,
> Absolutely first class mon ami!!!  It can't get any better than that!
>
> Thank you for sharing both the story and the portrait.
> ted
>
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "(SonC) Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:59 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Another Cancer Story with some Joy
>
>
> > For the past few days I have shared some pictures from the Relay for
Life.
> > As you may have read, our little community raised more than $90,000 for
> the
> > fight against cancer.
> >
> > An interesting thing happened the day after the Relay.  I was invited to
a
> > Couchon du Lait,  (A Louisiana traditional Pork roast.)  I got into a
> > conversation with a friend, who told me this story about her husband.
> >
> > It seems that he came down with Hodgkin's Disease, a lymphatic Cancer,
and
> > they had struggled for most of the past year with treatment, and now he
is
> > in remission.
> >
> > I won't go into the whole story, but there are many of you who have been
> > touched by this, either yourselves or a friend or someone you love, so
> many
> > of you  get the picture.
> >
> > Which brings me to this.  The Picture.  I tried several sniping shots,
> > (candids) but they just were not working.  So I noticed his daughter
kept
> > running up, and I said, "I need to get a shot of you two together."
> >
> > Her mom said she should take the pretzel out of her mouth; I over-ruled
> Mom.
> >
> > Anyhow here is the portrait I took of Mark and his daughter.  I hope he
> > lives a hundred years.
> >
> > http://www.sonc.com/relay/mark.htm
>
>
>
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