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So Why the Butterfly...


Sent 9/13/2009 - late evening:

Dear Mr. Dalton,

I am writing for permission to use one of your monarch butterfly photographs on my son's memorial website.  I lost my son in May 2007 and since that time I have been building the website.  The content continues to grow, but now I need to begin making it look nicer.

On the day of my son's funeral service, as I went to get the car, a monarch butterfly flew around me and when I put my hand out the butterfly landed on it.  I was 52 years old at the time and I have never had one land on me.  I'm not a religious or superstitious man, but I really do believe that the butterfly somehow represented my son Paul and was a message to tell me that he was now ok.  After about 30 seconds the butterfly flew away - I watched until it was out of sight.

I'm not sure exactly what the site will look like yet, but likely I'll use the butterfly in a header on all of the pages.  As I searched Google, all of the best butterfly photographs that I saw were yours.

Please let me know if this will be acceptable.

Thank you and warmest regards,

Jon