I'd thought I was going to wait a few days before posting here again, but "best-laid plans" and all that.... That’s really wonderful, Charmaine.
Thank you so much for keeping us updated, and thank you and all the other caring people who are helping to make this happen. It’s especially meaningful because of the financially precarious and sometimes desperate situation these loving parents have long been in.
I know that that isn’t something they’d want a lot of public conversation about, and I also know that, for them, it pales in significance next to the currently relatively good health and happiness of one of our favorite Kiva lenders. Nonetheless, it has to make this wonderful show of KivaFriend (and other Kiva lender) generosity* toward their so beloved daughter feel incredibly and probably inexpressibly
BIG . And it makes me smile and should make you smile just to think about it.
When I was riffing on the theme and goofing around on the Internet, I came across some pretty fun bike-related stuff.
See, below. Some of the happiest memories of my youth revolve around the songs we used to sing as a family, whether on a road trip, on the way to the Sunday drive-in where we used to get great hamburgers and onion rings, or just when and wherever. One of the sweet many many many was “
A Bicycle Built For Two .” The second version, below, has a verse that for obvious reasons brought to mind a one-time really active Kiva Friend who used to make a lot of people smile here.
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EDIT : I was just thinking. I only wish there were a KivaFriends or a similarly kindhearted community out there for
all the other little kids and families who are having to struggle and sometimes worse, hurt really badly, through absolutely no fault of their own. I guess it’s “Starfish, starfish,” all over again, huh?
And we do what we can. 
