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A little
girl was left with family friends while her mom and older sister attended a
funeral....
Little did
they know that what would happen that night would alter the course of that
child's history......
For at that
home a mystical creature resided in the backyard.....
A creature
with large orange spots on its sides.....
The teenage
son of the family friend put the child on the creature's back....
The child,
used to looking up to see much beyond kneecaps was enraptured by the view from
above........
And now you
know when I first became enraptured with the equine....
That I remember
this may be considered incredible when you realize that I was *maybe* 3 years
old.......
My mom
started the tradition of getting me a model every year for Christmas - alas,
some were Barbie horses....
I picked
up a few myself in the years following marriage , kids, etc. Nothing
major though until winter '99....
I
discovered Ebay!
I also
discovered there was a thriving community known as "haynet"
And then
there were all those remade critters I kept stumbling across on Ebay. I
determined to find out as much as I could.....
And
now, you're invited to sit back, relax, take your shoes off
You're
about to enter...