I'm glad you warned me about the kleenex! My dogs are licking my face, like "why are you crying"! What a wonderful, heartfelt touching story!
Thank you for sharing that with us! As sewgull said, it IS 6:00 news type stuff. Have you ever thought about sharing your story with the newspaper, or even a quilt magazine. I'm sure many other quilters would LOVE to hear this story.
Its stories like this that inspire us all,and they are the ones that we think about when sitting at our machines and our minds are wandering.