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From Lois J. Thomasson |
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was the sixties, and we starred at one another from under the protective wings of our mother hens, I with Mrs. Starbuck and he with Dorothy Ellis. From that moment on I became the Girl from California, and he, the Boy from Ireland. Through the passing years, even being a world apart, we each were aware of what the other was doing, until a half-century later when at last the circumstances made it possible for the bloodlines of Killykeen and Fleetwind to meet. My friend and I began our journey together, he in Ireland and I in California, both mentored by some of the breed's great authorities, directly connected to Graham. We were lucky and we knew it, and he always tried to give back by sharing his knowledge so generously. Those of us who knew him were swept along by his passion for the Irish Wolfhound, and we are left far poorer by his passing. To those who would paid tribute to his memory, breed the old type hunting dog of Graham's Standard.....he did, and we can do no less. Lois J. Thomasson |