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Subject: Re: [Leica] A very very cute story...
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@home.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:58:19 -0700
References: <200008310701.AAA08733@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> <005a01c01354$93e828a0$600e6882@sc.ucl.ac.be>

Grégoire Vandenschrick wrote:
> 
> I'm so excited that I have to write you this...<<<<<<<<<<<<

Bonjour Gregoire,

Congratulations to you and your about to be bride!  Good choice of girl
and cameras! :-) 
ted 
Victoria, Canada
http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant 
> 
> My fiancée and I will be married this 16 of september.
> This morning, I was walking around a well known camera dealer in brussel
> (near St. Boniface for the belgian people) and saw a Leica M3 in the shop. I
> entered, inspected the camera, and baught it. I had the plan to offer it to
> my girlfriend, as a wedding gift. This was so because I ennoy her now for
> more than six months with all the Leica docs I collected from the web,
> because I'm fond of the M6. Listening to me with such a kindness, she didn't
> stay unreceptive to the Leica addiction, and found the M3 the best camera of
> all. So, I come back home this midday, with a mystery look on my face, and,
> in a sudden, give her the camera. She was totally astonished by it, then,
> with also another, even more mystery look on her face, she asked me if I
> wanted also a wedding gift now, because it wasn't complete yet. I said yes.
> and then... ho, what happend, she gave me a brand new M6 TTL 0.72 silver
> chrome, apologizing herself for there was not yet the 35 summicron asph with
> it. The rest is a little bit to intimate to describe, but, ho boy, what a
> day!!
> 
> This is totally real, and if not, I don't want to awake, what a wonderful
> girl I have...
> 
> The M3 is an early one, double stroke, sn 740198, with a summicron 50 sn
> 1442083
> The M6 has sn 2495878.
> 
> at least, M...
> 
> Grégoire Vandenschrick

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