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Passing of Robin Gray, President NiceIce.com
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Todd - I am so very, very sorry. You were both such stars when we came to you about my engagement ring in 2003. She was so funny and totally direct, very easy to talk with and instantly inspired trust. We were your Belgian clients, Nikki took a turn for the worse while we were buying from you and you had to spend some time with her at the hospital.
I thought a lot about you and your situation at the time. There really aren''t words to say how sorry I am and how much I hope that you find strength somehow.
Abigail and Thierry (who at the time didn''t speak English)
I thought a lot about you and your situation at the time. There really aren''t words to say how sorry I am and how much I hope that you find strength somehow.
Abigail and Thierry (who at the time didn''t speak English)
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I stumbled across your post for the first time just today.
My heart aches for the sorrows that you and your wife carried together and now for the sorrows you carry alone. My wife and I know intimately the sorrow of losing a child after a long illness.
Remarkably, my search for an eternity ring for my wife began with Robin and it was my priviledge to talk to her on the phone at some length. In fact, it was Robin who first told me about Pricescope!
But, as one would expect, she never mentioned what she and you had experienced. Now, as we read your message with profound sadness, we so deeply wish that we had heard the account or even been given a clue. My dear wife would have been more than willing to visit with her and share hearts, as only mothers who know the same sorrow could do. Perhaps we might have been able to help Robin find the Way through a valley of such pain.
Todd, please know that you will be in the prayers of my family.
"The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart ..." Psalm 34:18
My heart aches for the sorrows that you and your wife carried together and now for the sorrows you carry alone. My wife and I know intimately the sorrow of losing a child after a long illness.
Remarkably, my search for an eternity ring for my wife began with Robin and it was my priviledge to talk to her on the phone at some length. In fact, it was Robin who first told me about Pricescope!
But, as one would expect, she never mentioned what she and you had experienced. Now, as we read your message with profound sadness, we so deeply wish that we had heard the account or even been given a clue. My dear wife would have been more than willing to visit with her and share hearts, as only mothers who know the same sorrow could do. Perhaps we might have been able to help Robin find the Way through a valley of such pain.
Todd, please know that you will be in the prayers of my family.
"The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart ..." Psalm 34:18
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I want to take a moment to thank everybody for all of the kind words and comments, PM''s of condolences, cards, etc. as you might expect, they mean a lot. So many people have shared their personal experiences with similar tragedies in their lives and that helps as well because it helps to know that this type of tragedy is not an uncommon occurance as tragic as that is... Many people have expressed concern that I might not be able to forgive Robin and I feel that it is important to express here that I forgave Robin for taking her own shortly after it happened... I see her actions as an example of the depth of her grief and not as an action against me personally. I know that she loved me, I sincerely hope that she knew the depth of my love for her. We enjoyed a life that few people experience, we worked side by side for almost twenty years, we were together 24/7 with very rare exception for fifteen years of that time and we got along quite well... Most people who knew us well compared us to the two little chipmunks "Chip & Dale" in the cartoon because we were always chattering and plotting mischief upon our friends, hence the twist on the avatar... I will miss Robin dearly, but I''m not angry with her. I see her actions as an act of desperation, an attempt to end the emotional pain that she felt due to the loss of her daughter, as an attempt to be reunited with her daughter, but not as an act of anger or hate or selfishness and hope that everybody who reads this post understands that.
A lot of people have asked me about the business... It has been correctly noted that there has been a reduction in inventory... Let''s face it, for the past few weeks I''ve been taking it pretty easy and spending most of my time trying to wrap my mind around this... Wrapping up my mind and unwrapping it, over and over again... Hanging out with friends and family... Taking some time to walk a beach or two and stare at more than a few sunsets... Attending a suicide survivors group that has been quite helpful because nobody understands what I''m going through like somebody who has lived it... Thankfully most of our business is internet based and thus I''ve been selling off inventory, which is easy because I did all the work involved with buying the diamonds prior to Robin''s death... Buying inventory properly takes more of a committment and I haven''t felt like playing that hard lately. Thus I''ve been picking and choosing the projects that I want to take on at the moment, I''ve been passing the ones that require thought to my favorite competitors... I know that people don''t want to "bother me" when I''m supposed to be mourning, but the reality is that I''ll go insane if I don''t work at least a little bit each day and I have no intention of letting Robin''s death destroy the wonderful business that we built together, to do so would be a tragic addition to her death and something that I don''t feel she would ever understand... So picking and choosing my projects for the moment seems to be a good approach, I handle what I feel that I can and refer those people who I don''t feel that I can help to other trusted vendors who I have a good relationship with... You might be surprised to know how truly intertwined our worlds are and how deep our relationships run despite our clear paths of competition... I plan to resume my normal buying practices in a week or two, but first I''m going to spend the 4th of July weekend in Florence, Oregon staring at the beach and hanging out with a fairly large group of friends who Robin and I planned this trip with months ago... We took delivery of a new 36'' fifth wheel RV just a few days before Robin''s death and this was to be the virgin voyage. Anyway, I''m going to do my best to get through this trip with all my mental capacities intact, it seems that the first of everything we used to do, or planned to do, sucks, but at least I have a lot of friends around and the support from our clients and the people here on PS has been tremendous and is greatly appreciated. Thank you
A lot of people have asked me about the business... It has been correctly noted that there has been a reduction in inventory... Let''s face it, for the past few weeks I''ve been taking it pretty easy and spending most of my time trying to wrap my mind around this... Wrapping up my mind and unwrapping it, over and over again... Hanging out with friends and family... Taking some time to walk a beach or two and stare at more than a few sunsets... Attending a suicide survivors group that has been quite helpful because nobody understands what I''m going through like somebody who has lived it... Thankfully most of our business is internet based and thus I''ve been selling off inventory, which is easy because I did all the work involved with buying the diamonds prior to Robin''s death... Buying inventory properly takes more of a committment and I haven''t felt like playing that hard lately. Thus I''ve been picking and choosing the projects that I want to take on at the moment, I''ve been passing the ones that require thought to my favorite competitors... I know that people don''t want to "bother me" when I''m supposed to be mourning, but the reality is that I''ll go insane if I don''t work at least a little bit each day and I have no intention of letting Robin''s death destroy the wonderful business that we built together, to do so would be a tragic addition to her death and something that I don''t feel she would ever understand... So picking and choosing my projects for the moment seems to be a good approach, I handle what I feel that I can and refer those people who I don''t feel that I can help to other trusted vendors who I have a good relationship with... You might be surprised to know how truly intertwined our worlds are and how deep our relationships run despite our clear paths of competition... I plan to resume my normal buying practices in a week or two, but first I''m going to spend the 4th of July weekend in Florence, Oregon staring at the beach and hanging out with a fairly large group of friends who Robin and I planned this trip with months ago... We took delivery of a new 36'' fifth wheel RV just a few days before Robin''s death and this was to be the virgin voyage. Anyway, I''m going to do my best to get through this trip with all my mental capacities intact, it seems that the first of everything we used to do, or planned to do, sucks, but at least I have a lot of friends around and the support from our clients and the people here on PS has been tremendous and is greatly appreciated. Thank you
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