This is Gabriel, our adopted college student. He's a music performance major at our local university; lucky for us. He serenades us with Chopin, Rachmaninoff, etc. when he comes over. We usually have him over to eat Sunday dinner with us after church.Our church has this program where college students who want to be adopted while they're in school in our town and going to our church sign up. They're then placed within our church families.
We've had some not so good ones in the past, but we scored big with Gabriel. He's only a sophomore, so we'll have him around for a few more years.
I gave him the score from the movie Pride and Prejudice for Christmas last year. It's the most beautiful music I've ever heard. Within a few weeks he had it all worked up and was playing it for us. There are definite perks to this adoption thing. Now if he'll only do the dishes!
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I wonder if I can find a college student to adopt...none of our daughters are around much to serenade us. So I enlisted our choir director once in exchange for dinner--but we do have a university close by!
What a wonderful gift you are giving Gabriel and it seems he is blessing you as well....Isn't that the way it works anyway...we give away and it comes back.....
I'd love to meet up with you when you come to Colorado. Email me and we'll see if we can make it work. Oh, if only I wasn't back in school. But, we'll try!
My email is maston.karen@gmail.com.
I emailed you, too.
Wow, I want to adopt a piano player! He doesn't even have to be a college student. What a grand idea, and what a great match.
frances
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