They were having a retrospective art collection for the three founders of the museum, and this had been in the works for a long time. Like, my dad, it was — we thought it actually might happen when my dad was alive, and then my dad passed away. So, he wasn’t gonna be there to talk, they asked if I would talk about my dad’s art. And I was like, “Sure, absolutely,” but I was a little bit nervous about it because, you know, I was still grieving and talking about my dad’s art, I knew I was going to get really — it was going to get kind of emotional. So, it’s kind of — I was nervous about that, but I was really happy I was going back for it. And at the same time I told my sister, you know, I’ll stay and I think I was gonna make a long weekend out of it, and we would try to get through as much of the house stuff as possible. And I had mentioned this to my group of girlfriends that, you know, I have this group of girlfriends, none of them live in Michigan. They’re all kind of scattered around and one day, my friends said, “We’re, we’re coming.”
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So, this — you know, this was like a really big enterprise for them, and they just said, “We’re doing it.” And sure enough they came out, and I mean, they arranged everything, you know, flights, their own hotel, they took care of that themselves, and they, you know, they came out, and they were like, “Put us to work,” and I, you know, we just, like, hand them a note pad and point them, you know, off to something that, you know, something that they could catalog obviously. Like, really — some stuff, you know, you need to have, like, content knowledge, but, you know, there was other stuff where they — we just needed like a record of, you know, what stuff was, and they were, like, so helpful. And they made it, like, so, like, fun, because it’s like, it was really kind of dusty work, and it was kind of a grind to go through all this stuff. But, you know, many hands make light work, right? And — God, it was like so much. It was just such a great day too, like the Saturday that we did that, and then Sunday was, you know, the special museum thing. And it was really great for me to have them out there in the audience because there were some times where I know, like, my voice was shaking, and I don’t know. It just, like, it meant so much to me for them to have — to give up their weekend to do this, to go through all of that travel hassle, to do work that was, like, kind of dirty and dusty. And it — I don’t know, I just feel — to this day, I feel overwhelmed that they did that for me at a time, like, when I really needed it.