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I've been thinking about this all day, so I figure I should just post it. I'm sure lots of you have similar stories to tell. Maybe you want to share them?
Five years ago my boss, TG, died after a difficult illness. He was a good boss, a total policy wonk, and very into financial stuff for our agency.
His wife is very convinced he comes back to visit from time to time, and his calling card is money. There is a park named for him, and whenever she visits it, she finds money on the ground.
Once I was on a trip to DC that he typically attended. It was a conference about money, of course. Getting ready to grab a plane home, I noticed my palm pilot was lit up, must have bumped something in my purse, but the name and address displayed on the thing belonged to TG. I knew he was there with me, at his favorite conference.
Just recently, my staff and I have gotten involved in this big funding task force effort that is an echo, a sequel, to the thing that TG was leading before he died, a thing I had to take over from him when he got ill. There are only a few on the staff now who remember him, but we were talking about him the day of our kickoff meeting for the new effort. Somebody said something about looking for money on the floor.
Sure enough, one of the new secretaries, who didn't even know TG, told us after the meeting that one of the spectators had found a quarter on the floor and gave it to someone, joking about the funding aspect of the conference, maybe they'd need this. We all knew TG had been there that day.
Here's to TG. :beer:
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