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.
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