I'm so sorry.
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On a different (somewhat lighter) blog note, my wife's in a show that the local theatre group's presenting for the state competition, called
Elephant's Graveyard, a small but powerful play about the true story of
Mary the Elephant, who was hanged from a railroad crane in 1916 for killing one of her keepers.
Preview is tonight, state level competition's in Harrisburg this weekend.
This is the first time anyone in our family's done any theatre since... hell, for nearly 10 years. Theatre was, to a great extent, what brought my wife and I together. It was, until a serious injury, what my wife did for a living - and she was one of the best. Hair & makeup, costumes, props, set decoration - not to mention acting and stage management - she's won awards for all of them.
Then she pissed someone big in the local community off, and got blacklisted from one group. The injury got her out of the rest.
The fact that she was welcomed back with open arms, is on stage and doing costumes and makeup for this show, and has the full support of all of us (we know nearly everyone in the cast, and all of the backstage folk), has made this one of the best experiences she's had in a long time - especially after dealing with our daughter's illnesses for the last three years.
She needed this. And I'm SO glad I pushed her into auditioning.
Break a leg, love.