Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Susan's husband Philip put together this short video tribute to Graham. In some of the later photos you can see the distinct line down his chin where it was split open to remove a tumour from his throat. He came home from Hong Kong to have the surgery in Toronto and I remember him showing it to me before they took it out. It was the size of a baseball and looked disturbingly like a baby was about to be born through his mouth.
In spite of a political career that took him far from the prairies, Graham was a cowboy in every sense. He and Isabel had only recently sold their farm (a heartbreaking decision but a necessary one considering his heart condition) and the day he died, had just finalized the sale of his last few horses.

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