Thursday, March 02, 2006
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF www.findaclint.org
Friends:
I know it has been awhile since I have sent out a message to the members of our esteemed organization. I also know that much time has passed and there have been moments when I have wavered off my course. However, in my heart, I have always believed that the day would come when I would see Clint again.
Hopefully, that day is soon.
After many months of sitting patiently at Carter’s garage…waiting for Clint to come down to the garage himself and receive the letter that I left there for him…watching Clint’s friends come and go...people that we know have contact with him…after watching Carter tell them countless times to have Clint come down to the shop to pick up papers regarding a new car deal…after many months of all of this and still nothing, I became very frustrated. However, I was not about to give up because the tragedy still would be that Clint never had the chance to know that any of this was even going on…
We don’t know the circumstances of Clint’s life right now. The other boys have jobs now…there is talk that Clint may as well…if that is the case, he may never return to the garage if he is no longer doing that type of work…so, I decided…if he won’t come to the garage to get the letter…we’ll have one taken to him. Carter was always hesitant to remove the letter from the shop because he didn’t trust something so important in the hands of anyone other than Clint. However, (and I don’t know why we didn’t think of this before), there is no reason that there could not be multiple letters. And so on February 14th, I made my decision and I brought a second letter to Carter’s…this one to be given to one of Clint’s friends the next time one of them was at the shop…in the guise of a personal letter that Carter needed to get to Clint…
Then we waited…and waited…and I became frustrated because after that second letter was dropped off…George would call Carter every day telling him he was coming down…but he never showed up…
And then today, which will go down as one of the three biggest days in the history of www.findaclint.org up until this point (the other two being the actual meeting of Clint as well as the day we found Carter’s Auto after making hundreds of phone calls to area mechanics)…Mike showed up…
Not only is Mike the ringleader of the group…Carter believes that Mike, of all of the boys, is the one that knows Clint best…and in fact, I remember the first day I ever talked to Carter back in January of last year…he said, “oh yeah, I know Clint…Mike’s friend…” According to Carter, this is like if you were trying to locate me and you were somehow able to pass a letter off to Beth…
So, Mike arrived at the shop at 10am this morning to pick up some paperwork Carter had for him…and that is when the letter was passed off…Carter told Mike to pass it off to Clint as soon as he could and to have Clint call Carter when he received it so at least we would have confirmation when the letter was actually delivered to the correct person…currently it is en route…we don’t know how long it will take to reach its destination…he could be taking it there as we speak…he may even live with Clint…or he may not see him as often anymore and it might take him a little longer to get the letter to him…but the point is, the letter is en route…and this is the biggest advancement as far as getting news to Clint that we have really ever had…
I hope that this is the turn around point…and I hope that we receive news soon…
Today is an exciting day for www.findaclint.org
Updates will follow…
Find Clint. Find Peace.
Sincerely,
Debbie Little
President
www.findaclint.org
Friends:
I know it has been awhile since I have sent out a message to the members of our esteemed organization. I also know that much time has passed and there have been moments when I have wavered off my course. However, in my heart, I have always believed that the day would come when I would see Clint again.
Hopefully, that day is soon.
After many months of sitting patiently at Carter’s garage…waiting for Clint to come down to the garage himself and receive the letter that I left there for him…watching Clint’s friends come and go...people that we know have contact with him…after watching Carter tell them countless times to have Clint come down to the shop to pick up papers regarding a new car deal…after many months of all of this and still nothing, I became very frustrated. However, I was not about to give up because the tragedy still would be that Clint never had the chance to know that any of this was even going on…
We don’t know the circumstances of Clint’s life right now. The other boys have jobs now…there is talk that Clint may as well…if that is the case, he may never return to the garage if he is no longer doing that type of work…so, I decided…if he won’t come to the garage to get the letter…we’ll have one taken to him. Carter was always hesitant to remove the letter from the shop because he didn’t trust something so important in the hands of anyone other than Clint. However, (and I don’t know why we didn’t think of this before), there is no reason that there could not be multiple letters. And so on February 14th, I made my decision and I brought a second letter to Carter’s…this one to be given to one of Clint’s friends the next time one of them was at the shop…in the guise of a personal letter that Carter needed to get to Clint…
Then we waited…and waited…and I became frustrated because after that second letter was dropped off…George would call Carter every day telling him he was coming down…but he never showed up…
And then today, which will go down as one of the three biggest days in the history of www.findaclint.org up until this point (the other two being the actual meeting of Clint as well as the day we found Carter’s Auto after making hundreds of phone calls to area mechanics)…Mike showed up…
Not only is Mike the ringleader of the group…Carter believes that Mike, of all of the boys, is the one that knows Clint best…and in fact, I remember the first day I ever talked to Carter back in January of last year…he said, “oh yeah, I know Clint…Mike’s friend…” According to Carter, this is like if you were trying to locate me and you were somehow able to pass a letter off to Beth…
So, Mike arrived at the shop at 10am this morning to pick up some paperwork Carter had for him…and that is when the letter was passed off…Carter told Mike to pass it off to Clint as soon as he could and to have Clint call Carter when he received it so at least we would have confirmation when the letter was actually delivered to the correct person…currently it is en route…we don’t know how long it will take to reach its destination…he could be taking it there as we speak…he may even live with Clint…or he may not see him as often anymore and it might take him a little longer to get the letter to him…but the point is, the letter is en route…and this is the biggest advancement as far as getting news to Clint that we have really ever had…
I hope that this is the turn around point…and I hope that we receive news soon…
Today is an exciting day for www.findaclint.org
Updates will follow…
Find Clint. Find Peace.
Sincerely,
Debbie Little
President
www.findaclint.org
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