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Nov 20 08

For the last 14 months, we’ve owed a response to the videographer who shot the footage of the Visitation on July 20, 2007 and the “Celebration of Andrew’s Life” on July 21, 2007.

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Nov 14 08

I’m sorry that I haven’t posted since Monday. On Tuesday morning, Chris and I paid our respects to Billy Beauchamp’s family. The image of a little 2 year old in an open casket stays with you forever!

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Nov 10 08

Please keep the family of Billy Beauchamp in your prayers. Billy’s family is the first family that we ever helped and, sadly, Billy passed away on Nov. 5th.

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Nov 5 08

With the polls closed, the historic presidential election is finally over.

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Nov 1 08

It’s hard to believe it’s November already! I hope everyone had a great and safe Halloween.

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Oct 29 08

This past weekend, we went down to OCNJ and had fun, rain and all. Ali had a great idea to take some pictures on the beach and we were able to get some in on Saturday right before the storm came.

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Oct 24 08

Delaware Youth Soccer Association (DYSA) and Hockessin Soccer Club (HSC) have very generously decided that our Foundation and Kids Kickin’ Cancer (founded by Alicia & Brandon Lewandowski) will be beneficiaries of the upcoming “Kohl’s Cup” soccer tournament at HSC on Nov. 8-9.

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Oct 21 08

First, let me congratulate everyone on a successful CureSearch Walk on Saturday in Wilmington.

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Oct 15 08

Please keep Ally Heintz’s family in your prayers. Ally, an amazingly brave 4 yr old girl from PA, was a neighbor of ours when we were in the A.I. DuPont PICU last year.

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Oct 10 08

Today, while it was tremendously sad, I had the honor of paying my respects to the Wilson family at Jeremy’s viewing. I truly feel blessed to have met Jeremy at A.I. duPont Hospital, but I wish I had never met him for this reason.

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Oct 6 08

It’s hard to believe that my little girl is 18!!! Ali, your Mom, Andrew, and I are all so proud of you.

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Sept 28 08

Well, it was a little wet, but a nice weekend. This was “Parents Weekend” at the University of Delaware.

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Sept 25 08

Thank you for the nice comments about Question #1 from Andrew’s “Spiritual Biography”. Here are Andrew’s two other questions from the assignment “What three questions would you ask God?”:

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Sept 23 08

It’s hard, yet heartwarming, to go through some of Andrew’s old school assignments.

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Sept 21 08

I hope everyone is MAKING it a great weekend. I had the honor of visiting two families yesterday at A.I. duPont Hospital — Zack Adamsky’s family and Ronald Phillips’ family.

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Sept 16 08

Wow, what a day! The 2nd Annual Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation Golf Outing, Dinner, & Auction yesterday was a HUGE success.

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Sept 11 08

As I told you in one of my recent postings, there’s a really brave young lady who is fighting Ewing’s Sarcoma.

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Sept 7 08

Thank you very much for the kind postings in support of my family following my brother-in-law’s passing on Friday. Pasted below is Dan’s obituary, which he authored himself.

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Sept 3 08

Well Andrew, It was 16 years ago today that God blessed us with your presence.

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Aug 31 08

Well, we had our big day at the University of Delaware today. Ali is all moved in! Her room looks great; her roommate, Emily, seems like a really nice girl and I think this is going to be a great chapter in Ali’s life

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