3 miles to Disney for your birthday!

Hi Emma G - I found one of the photos from our Disney trip in Sept. 2011 for your birthday :) We were 3 miles away from the entrance and I turned around from the passenger side of your dad's Chevy Tahoe and snapped this photo. Obviously excited! I bet if I went through your dad's photos, which one day you will have, I'd find a ton of photos from that fun weekend!

Hi Honey

 I know your birthday has come and gone and you are 15years old.  Hope it was happy!  So much time, so many stories, so many changes in our lives.  I hope they’ve been good for you.  Grandpa and I have been traveling recently and everywhere we go, our family and friends ask about you.  We are ALL waiting for you to come back to us. To care about, to love in person, to talk to you and ask you what you’ve been doing for these long years since you were cruelly taken from us.  I think we’ll all be surprised when we see each other.  We’ve all changed.  That’s life!  All good.   Love always, Grammie (703)577-5746

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Emma! I hope you had an amazing birthday on the 27th! 15! Will you get your Learner's Permit? It's exciting to drive :) I remember when your dad would quiz you on your birth date -- even at 3 years old you knew it. We also surprised you one year by going to Disney World, just your dad, you, and me. You got a pink Mickey Mouse hat and all sorts of fun gifts. And your dad had a cake sent to the hotel room and we sang happy birthday to you there. It was so fun. When I find photos, I will share them.

I hope you are well after the hurricane. That was a big one!

We are always thinking about you and wishing for your safety and happiness. Your dad loved you with every morsel of his heart and soul and I know he would want to be here with you. Everyone in Naples in the educational non-profit community that saw you grow up, that watched you color in coloring books in your dad's office, that gave you high-fives when you went to events with your dad, and genuinely loved seeing you, is wishing the best for you. You two were always together -- like glue. Know that you were and will always be super loved.

You are beautiful!

 Hi Emma honey,  Today is Saturday, September 10, 2022.  It’s been 7 years since we’ve seen you.  I wonder how you are, how you’ve grown, your hair, is it long or short, how much you are shown love and understanding, if you remember us, your family.  You are never far from my thoughts and never out of my heart.  We have a bond of blood.  We share DNA and nobody can cancel that.  Being a teenager is tough enough, I remember how confusing it was,  and pray that you are given respect and acknowledgement for being the amazing young lady you are.  You are grounded in being a Foege, regardless of what last name your mother and the man you have to live with have given you.  I know a name can be considered just letters from the alphabet but when you were born your given name was Emma Grace Foege.  You own that name and only you should be able to decide to change it regardless of what your mother did.  Foege is an honorable name and your father worked hard to make other children’s lives better.  He is remembered in the non profit world as someone who did everything he could for children in need. It is a name to be proud of.  He loved you to pieces and you loved him. He was your world and you were his.  Someday we will have a long talk. We can talk and discuss whatever you want and I will tell you the truth.  

As in most child alienation cases such as ours, the people the child has to live with start with bad mouthing the other which confuses the child.  The child eventually begins to believe those lies, falsehoods.  It’s called brain washing.  They change all memories of fun and goodness and turn them into awful lies, talking badly about the other.  Why?  I think they are afraid and in all cases, want to hurt the other.  Why they put the child in the middle to suffer I will never know.  I question if they can love anyone at all.  You will eventually know what has happened in years since you were taken out of our lives.  Everything and all lives are repairable.  We can heal and you can heal from hurts and things that have happened.  

We want you to be a happy young girl with choices and ability to make your own decisions.  We will love you as we do Žan and Taj.  They miss you.  We miss you.  Life is good over here and you deserve to be part of it.  

I remain your Grammie forever.  

Emma Grace FOEGE of "EGF Consulting Group"

 

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