Don’t know if it was being overwhelmed with the response, attention and money or a hoax but hopefully local artists and educational nonprofits will now benefit.

And being relentlessly gay has given me the ability to see her original line “ I will battle it with whimsy and beauty and laughter and love wrapped around my home, yard and family” fitting nicely with the now ending line “ the avalanche was a thing of beauty, of support and of love. The snow kicked up into the sun and created a crystalline rainbow”……that’s what I’ll take from this.