This is the second heart we have found (me and my dog). The first had a dog motif and we found it while on a walk together and made both of us so happy after a sad week. This one is even far more meaningful. Best friends of ours had a young son with a very poorly working heart (he was blue all the time) who was lucky enough to get on of the first pediatric heart transplants. He was doing very well the first couple of days but then turned for the worse and died with his parents on June 4th. We had visited his grave (now over 30 years ago) on Memorial Day and today, June 4th again, the dog and I were walking through the cemetery and saw a flash of white up ahead on on old Oak tree in a very remote part of the cemetery. We walked up and I could see immediately that it was an IFAQH heart but it had been placed up on a branch that was too high for me to reach. I was commiserating with my dog when I realized he had his leash on that has a 15 ft lead. So I took it off, fastened a kind of lasso, tossed it up at the (dead) branch it was looped over and it a tiny piece of branch broke off and down came the heart. You will see in the picture that the background is a deep blue heart and I immediately thought of him. Then I saw it also had a small butterfly pin, something he also loved and I then sat with the dog and just thought about all he could have been but that even someone who never knew him sent him love and remembrance. I will never be so grateful to the anonymous stranger who so carefully crafted and placed this remarkably wonderful gift. You have honored his life even without knowing him and we so appreciate what you have done. We often walk in this cemetery and pass this oak and I will now forever see it as so very special.
Oakland Cemetery
