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Subject: [Leica] What would you do if wifey dropped your MP?
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sat Aug 27 10:12:03 2005

How about..."No big deal - it's just a tool. By the way, did we remember to
pickup the Kitty Litter?"




On 8/27/05 12:51 PM, "Jay" <bonvini@optonline.net> wrote:

> Very well put.
> Go with " give my sweetie a big cuddle and a kiss, wipe her eyes dry and 
> say
> "It's alright. It's only plastic and metal.  And a few pieces of
> glass.  Incredibly expensive, exotic and exquisitely assembled glass,
> but in the end, just glass."
> And somehow word the last line as an analogy to how she is incredible,
> exquisite and exotic if not more so.
> 
> 
> Jay Ignaszewski
> 203-372-5900 home
> 917-519-1919 cell
> bonvini@optonline.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bonvini=optonline.net@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of
> Kenneth Frazier
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 7:29 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] What would you do if wifey dropped your MP?
> 
> 
> rdcb37@dodo.com.au (Rick Dykstra) wrote:
> 
>> What would you do?
> 
> Hmmm....lemme see, now...
> 
> A.) You can get the lens fixed (if it needs fixing), the hood replaced,
> sell the MP to some deserving person, buy a $39.95 P&S, make a pinhole
> camera out of the MP body (just drill a hole in the body cap), give up
> photography for fishing, take up needlepoint ....
> 
> B.) Your wife and child....irreplaceable, of infinite value, worth
> everything in the world...
> 
> Not a hard one, IMHO....
> 
> Tell her you love her!!!
> 
> There have been times in the past several years, dear LUGers, when my
> return to photography with Leicas, starting with my M6 from Michael
> Hintlian, has been a lifesaver for me, giving me some goals, getting me
> focused, so to speak.... :-)
> 
> And, there have been more times when I would give it all up, in an
> instant, for my late wife's presence...
> 
> There's not a time I go out shooting that I do not think, "I wish she
> were here to see the light coming through those trees, across that
> field, on our granddaughter's face....."
> 
> Nope, not a hard one at all, for me.
> 
> Ken
> --
> The Rev. Kenneth Frazier
> Norfield Congregational Church
> CT Conference, United Church of Christ
> Weston, CT  USA
> Leica photos at: http://tinyurl.com/6sc2r
> 
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