Shame on me for not noticing this story before!! I'm SO not proud of myself.
Nancy, this is excellent! Absolutely, totally, *excellent*!!
I wasn't sure at first if I was going to be able to read it - a very dear friend of mine lost everything during that hurricane and it always breaks my heart just hearing about the awful mess Katrina's caused... And 'course you had me going "poor Clark" from about the middle up to the end of this piece and reaching for the kleenex (I cry at everything, what can I say?). But I'm SO glad I read this from start to end.
It's wonderfully well written and beautiful.
Thank you so, so much for sharing this with us!
