Dear Mr. and Mrs. Morgenstern,
Hello, my name is Graham Wadsworth.
I met you all briefly in the country on the first weekend in
August when going to
a bike race with Nancy. Although you and I met then, I met
Nancy
while working at a cycling camp she visited on holiday in
Mallorca, Spain, last March. When I visited New York the
following summer,
Nancy was incredibly generous and welcoming to my friend
Martin and I. (Martin was my traveling companion from Spain.)
She
took us to bike races and put us before her own friends when
we needed something like a ride to a race.
During the summer I also spent
some time in Boulder, Colorado. When Nancy came out to visit
all of her friends in Snowmass
she very kindly stopped off and took Martin and me to Snowmass.
It
was great; it was the first time we'd been up in the really
high mountains like that. We met loads of Nancy's friends:
Jeremy,
Michelle, Robby, Becca and many more people who all knew Nancy.
It amazed me how she was able
to remain perfectly orthodox in terms of her religion. Going
away to a race would be hard
enough,
but Nancy took it in stride. She always knew what to do and
prepared herself accordingly, buying her food in advance
and staying close
by, etc. I have a lot of respect for how she did it, but it
seemed to come totally naturally to Nancy.
Nancy was always so welcoming
to us and I will always remember her and the times I spent in
the U.S.
My Thoughts are with you,
Graham Wadsworth
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