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It's been awhile since Stephen passed away and I still think about him each day and certaily each week when he does not pass by the store to say : " TONY! How's By You !?! " ... and we launch into our back-and-forth / ping-pong ball conversation that has the ball often on the table and with sometime it bouncing off and necessary for either Stephen or me to go off in search of it. A metaphor for our communication, our lives, our mutual respect for one another. One of us always brought the ball back and put it into play. We were in many ways a support system for one another, or at least that's how I am coming to see our many wonderful years of seeing each other regularly, starting when Stephen would come in with his mother and then, after she passed away, on his own. ... ...
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( These pictures, some of them show Cleveland Park , our Northwest neighborhood that Stephen knew well and often walked to do his shopping. Cheers.
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I will post some at all times of the day, though I often would see Stephen as I would start my day, often after I arrived at work and was busy in the office typing and updating stories, links, our Facebook store page at : Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits, or working on displays and showing our wines off to full effect to better sell them. Stephen would stop and look and pick up bottles and often have questions for me about them. he was quite observant and curious. We discussed many , many bottles of wine at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits ( 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washi
ngton D.C. 20008 tel : 202-363-4265 , anthony.quinn@clevelandparkwines.com . Feel free to contact me if Stephen was a friend and you would like to talk about him. ALSO : Feel free to write in in our COMMENT section below and stories, anecdotes, feelings, whatever you might be willing to share with us all that miss him dearly now. He passed away way to soon ...
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This is just my start with the photos, I will keep adding them and the text will follow. Hope you enjoy for the moment the stories these pictures tell on their own without words. Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn
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/// Here are some of the colorized pictures that Stephen would send me like Grace Kelly to celebrate my birthday and Ann Sheridan, too : Enjoy! Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn Thursday, June 27th, 2013 @ 11:35PM.
/// The above one is of Grace Kelly, and this one below is of Ann Sheridan. Stephen would always send me lots of Marilyn Monroe, but I liked these, too very much. Great colorizations by Stephen. Thanks Stephen! TONY
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I have to put here a colorized picture that Stephen sent me of Marilyn Monroe : what am I thinking?!? It will bot be complete without this! Cheers, TONY
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It's been awhile since Stephen passed away and I still think about him each day and certaily each week when he does not pass by the store to say : " TONY! How's By You !?! " ... and we launch into our back-and-forth / ping-pong ball conversation that has the ball often on the table and with sometime it bouncing off and necessary for either Stephen or me to go off in search of it. A metaphor for our communication, our lives, our mutual respect for one another. One of us always brought the ball back and put it into play. We were in many ways a support system for one another, or at least that's how I am coming to see our many wonderful years of seeing each other regularly, starting when Stephen would come in with his mother and then, after she passed away, on his own. ... ...
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( These pictures, some of them show Cleveland Park , our Northwest neighborhood that Stephen knew well and often walked to do his shopping. Cheers.
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I will post some at all times of the day, though I often would see Stephen as I would start my day, often after I arrived at work and was busy in the office typing and updating stories, links, our Facebook store page at : Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits, or working on displays and showing our wines off to full effect to better sell them. Stephen would stop and look and pick up bottles and often have questions for me about them. he was quite observant and curious. We discussed many , many bottles of wine at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits ( 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washi
ngton D.C. 20008 tel : 202-363-4265 , anthony.quinn@clevelandparkwines.com . Feel free to contact me if Stephen was a friend and you would like to talk about him. ALSO : Feel free to write in in our COMMENT section below and stories, anecdotes, feelings, whatever you might be willing to share with us all that miss him dearly now. He passed away way to soon ...
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This is just my start with the photos, I will keep adding them and the text will follow. Hope you enjoy for the moment the stories these pictures tell on their own without words. Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn
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/// Here are some of the colorized pictures that Stephen would send me like Grace Kelly to celebrate my birthday and Ann Sheridan, too : Enjoy! Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn Thursday, June 27th, 2013 @ 11:35PM.
/// The above one is of Grace Kelly, and this one below is of Ann Sheridan. Stephen would always send me lots of Marilyn Monroe, but I liked these, too very much. Great colorizations by Stephen. Thanks Stephen! TONY
2 comments:
Tony! Thank you for remembering my father through your words and pictures. Something of your vitalism reminds me of him. I appreciate your openness and your care.
He was and is a great man and set the bar really high and his example towards his own family has always been something that I have admired. I am sorry for our loss, I know it has been especially hard for you and so I do hope that these pictures are a help to you and your family. Stephen will always hold a very special place in my heart and soul - we did encourage the very best in one another. That's very special alone. Anyway, I hope that from time to time our paths may cross. You will always be welcome chez moi/ chez Quinns! Cheers , TONY On another very serious note : my Uncle Mike on my wife's side of the family is doing very poorly now and that saddens me, too. It is so very hard for those that survive after loved ones pass away. This will be very hard for us, and very hard indeed for my wife. 5/13/13
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