My Gwumpa Stories will be fewer and farther between after this week… Mamasan and The Grandboy are heading off to different pastures soon.\u000b\u000b <\/p>\n
It was inevitable – mine was just a temporary safehouse in a storm. <\/p>\n
And, like all little birds, these are ready to start flying on their own.\u000b\u000b <\/p>\n
But not without a little breath of Gwumpa prayer to accompany God’s wind beneath their wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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