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Priscilla Berggren-Thomas's avatar

Wow, Rachel. So glad C. is okay and that mindless TV exists to get you through. It will, for C, make a great story to tell many years from now. Glad she has a bakery nearby as she recovers.

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

Thanks, Priscilla. Bakeries can make most things a-okay

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Priscilla Berggren-Thomas's avatar

For some odd reason, my comment wouldn't post and then it posted three times! Sorry, for the confusion.

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Sheila Callahan's avatar

Jesus. That she lived to tell the tale, and that you told it so well. Hurrah for the bear cub whose cry saved the day and your daughter.

Long distance walks can have terrifying moments, but this one takes the cake. So very glad C made it out alive and intact and thank you for writing about it.

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

Thanks, Sheila. It's her story to tell so I just put out the bullet-point version.

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Linda Dunn's avatar

O my stars. No words. Ice cream and ridiculous shows for all. Sylvia Borenstein, Buddhist teacher, once said that all her training and equilibrium could be demolished by two words over the phone: “hello, mom?” May you all mend, inside and out

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

I just got off the phone with Clara and she is doing well and the foot is on her mend. She is getting some well-deserved enforced downtime, which is a good thing. She’s is heading to Perugia in Italy and staying with the nuns at Assisi for three days, which should give her some more contemplative time.

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Liz Field's avatar

OMG - so glad she is okay! So scary!

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

Thanks, Liz.

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Andrea Eschen's avatar

This sounds terrifying, Rachel, both in the moment and the images that keep recurring of what happened and what could have been. I'm glad she kept a cool and clear head from the bite to the bakery to calling her parents. I hope you too are recovering from this scary event. It's one of those things a parent never wants to hear but one way or another is inevitable. So glad your daughter is OK.

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

Thanks, Andrea. I just got off a FaceTime call with her and she's doing well - foot is on the mend, and she's gotten some much-needed down time.

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Andrea Eschen's avatar

Phew!! I'm so glad to hear that.

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Kerry Dexter's avatar

Rachel you've raised a strong, clear thinking daughter. Well done to you and C both. May she -- and you -- heal well from the event.

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

Thanks, Kerry.

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Alexandra O's avatar

Wow. 😳 I have an adventurous daughter too and know the feeling of hearing "first of all, I'm all right." I'm sending this to her. So thankful YOUR girl is all right!! ❤️ ( And thanks be for REI boots!)

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

There's no stopping these strong, young women. And yes, hooray for those boots!

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Jill Swenson's avatar

Holy moly!

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

I know!

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Michael Busch's avatar

Yipes!

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Peggy Lodge's avatar

What the what?? I hope C. writes a book about her travels.

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

Me, too!

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Rob Costello's avatar

OMG, Rachel... Oh. My. God. Thank goodness she is okay, but holy shit.

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

I know!

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Nancy Dafoe's avatar

OMG. It would be hard not to ask her to come home RIGHT NOW, but you have to respect she did all the right things in the circumstances. Brave adventurer. Maybe a new movie out of this trip. So glad she is basically okay, although that foot may take some time to heal. It is good we don't always know what our children are doing.

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

Thanks, Nancy

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JoEllen Arnold's avatar

😱Your powerful, tough, smart C is a brave, adventuresome wonder-woman. I hope her experience does not dampen her drive to explore and enjoy the natural world—hope she is able to heal from the injury and the trauma of the attack. Bless that noise-making cub!!!!

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

Yes, hooray for the cub!

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Patti Witten's avatar

Oh my God, Rachel. I’m so glad she’s OK. OK ish. And you are you OK ish? I will never forget that you said (or wrote) that you watched endless episodes of ‘Frasier’ while processing a different trauma. Good to know ‘sister wives’ can do the trick. May lucky spirits, gods, and whatever watch over her.

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

Thank, Patti. Good memory re the Frasier watching

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Christine Arvidson's avatar

Omgomgomg

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

She's a tough cookie

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Kristin Ohlson's avatar

Shiver. But she is astoundingly tough.

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Rachel Dickinson's avatar

Yes indeed!

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