Traces Adkinettes - Karen's Special Meet & Greet

wow..it's hard to believe it's over..it seems like we just got here..our man sure showed everyone that he can be a "dangerous man"..dangerous on the eyes..and the heart!!..well i guess its time to pack us up and go see if we can find "mr. g".. since we're at the fair i have a feeling i know where we can find him..hanging out by the nearest elephant ear wagon..that man can't go to the fair without eating his weight in them..you girls got yourselves all strapped back there can't take the chance of loosing you as we go back over all those dang bumps.. especially now that all of the lights have been turned off good thing "mr.g" put a small headlight on the side of the arms of the chair..gotta give it to him..his brain never stops..sometimes that is good and sometimes it's scary..but i have to say this time he did real good!!..ok..let's turn this chair around and head on out..

uh lynn..where are you going?..just wait and see?..well i guess we don't have a choice do we..since we can't leave you here.. without the "magic bus" you would have to walk home..and home is quite a long walk from here.. sometimes that girl worries me..just taking off like that..well..i guess we'll just park it here and wait for her..can you ladies see her?..i lost her..oh wait.. there she is..OMG..she is heading towards the buses!!..wonder who that guy is that she is talking to??..he's pointing to one of the buses..you don't think..na..she wouldn't do that would she.. uhhh..it seems that is exactly what she is doing.. whoever that guy is he is standing in front of her so she can sneak up to trace's bus without anyone seeing her..NOW she is knocking on his window..oh be still my heart!!..the door of his bus is opening up..and she is talking to someone..she is pointing over here to us..and now she is heading back here..she looks like she has wings on her feet with her arms flapping up and down like that she looks like she's flying..you can tell she is grinning from ear to ear..i'm almost afraid to ask her what that look on her face means!!

oh you guys are going to have to hold me up..i can't believe what your saying lynn..he wants to see me?..are you sure..you haven't been drinking..or been into my "super-duper" drugs have you??..well i guess if the man wants to see me we better see about getting me over there..hang on ladies..the bumps we went over earlier were nothing compared to the ones we have to go over in that field that is between us and trace..ok lynn..i'm hanging on as tight has i can..and all of the girls are strapped in tight..away we go..to see trace!! ;0)

and that is just what we did..lynn and another lady..who had been standing with her friends at the end of the fence meant to keep people from going back to the buses..they were waiting and hoping that he might come out of his bus and maybe the could get him to sign their pictures and shirts..she and lynn took a chance and made a mad dash toward the bus..lynn was going to do whatever she could to make sure that i was going to see trace one last time..when they got over to the buses they ran into the guitar player for keith anderson..lynn didn't know who he was but she went up to him and told him our story and asked if there was anything he could do to help..he told her he didn't know anyone from trace's group but he showed her which bus was traces and said he would stand in front of the bus and cover for her so no one could see her if she wanted to go and try knocking on his window..so she did..she knocked on the window and trace said..WHAT!!..about scared poor lynn to death..(she later said that at first she thought he was mad but realized it was just his deep voice) but she figured she had nothing to lose so she told him who she was and that she was with me..and that tonite was probably the last time i would be able to see him..so he came down the steps and opened the door..he asked her where i was.. and she pointed to where i was sitting he told her to bring me over to the bus..but only the two of us..no one else..that is when she took off and ran over the field like a mad woman!!

while i was sitting there waiting for her to do whatever it was that she was going to do i was telling the people who were standing there a little about trace..and about you all..and that we had been following trace for 10 years..so when lynn and this other lady got to me and told me what trace said they all couldn't believe it..lynn took ahold of the handles of my w/ chair and the lady walked in front of us to help steer us away from the biggest bumps and wires that were all the place on the way to the bus..when we got there the lady stepped over and stood next to the guitar player and trace's manager came over to us and said that trace would be out in a minute..he had us move up behind the door so that when trace came out the door would give us some privacy..i was pretty much in a state of shock..i had never in a million years thought that i was going to get to see him..i was just thankful that my body held up long enough to make it thru the concert and that lynn was able "sweet" talk the big burly staff guy that was standing in front of the stage into letting her slip the thank you letter that i wrote to up on the stage she got it up there and one
of trace's set up guys saw it and set it up on the drum platform.. right next to trace's towels ad water bottles!!..i had put it in a clear plastic notebook and the front of the letter said "a special thank you to trace from karen and the adkinette's..with a picture of he and i that was taken a few summers ago..so to find myself and lynn sitting beside trace's bus was unbelievable..

we didn't have to sit there very long before the door opened up and trace came down the steps..as soon as he stepped off of the bus..with his hair down..wearing a t-shirt with the sleeves cut out to show off his nice firm muscles a pair of sweat pants cut off at his knees (ohhhh.. he looks even better in his "comfy" clothes as he does in his regular ones!!) he came over to me and put his hands on his hips and said.."so..what's this i hear that you won't be able to come and see me anymore?"..he then kneeled down.. gave me a hug and a kiss on my cheek..i told him about how my disease was getting worse..he looked into my eyes and said.."we won't be talking about us never getting to see each other again!!"..so we talked a little and he asked me to tell him about this book that he was hearing his guys talking about i laughed and told him the story of lynn putting it up on the stage before he came out and that it had been sitting on the platform for the drum all thru his concert..he chuckled and looked at lynn and shook his head.. and lynn bless her heart was just standing there with the "look" on her face and you could tell she was shaking from her head to her toes..then he asked me if it was one of my famous "stories"..i laughed and told him it kind of was..i told him it was a thank you letter from me..and the adkinettes..and how it had the history of how we began and how much he and his music meant to me and the rest of the adkinettes..i told him some of the other things that were in it..he looked up to his manager and asked him to make sure he found the book..he wanted to have it before they left so he could read it that night..we talked a little more then he moved in close so could get our picture taken he gave me a squeeze and i said there wasn't a cowboy hat to slide under..he laughed and shook his head..after we had our picture taken..he stood up and turned around and thanked lynn for knocking on his window..he wouldn't have wanted to miss seeing me..he then turned around to me kneeled down again..and when he was giving me another hug..and while he was hugging me he said.."remember darlin.. we're not going to say goodbye..we will be seeing each other again!!"..i got one more hug and another kiss on the cheek..(which of course i had to give him one back!!)..i thanked him for seeing us..and how much it meant to me..he said he was glad that it worked out that we got together..then it was time to go
we just smiled at each other he put his hand over his heart..but didn't say good bye..he just told me to take care of myself and i said i would..then he got on the bus and the door closed and lynn and i looked at each other and then just kind of "floated" back to the exit!!..actually it was the lady and the guitar player that helped us get back but it sure felt like we were "floating"..i never felt the bumps or those big ol wires that were out there!!.

the people were still standing there and the guitar player was kind enough to have his picture taken with them all..and us too..then he took my hand and squeezed it and told me that it was pretty cool what trace did..and i'm thinking..oh yeah..it was way more that COOL!!!!..lynn and i took off to her car..she pried me out of my chair got my stiff body in..strapped me in..put my neck brace back on then went and put my chair in her trunk..she got in..started up her car..then we both looked at each other and SCREAMED!!

so ladies..that is the story..the true story about my night with trace..which would have never happened with out you all and the mighty powers of the "adkinette prayers" ..and a big thanks for our new "honorary adkinette" lynn for doing whatever she had to so i could see trace..one last time..can't forget "mr.g" for buying me my tickets..and to God for helping me hold it together long enough to make it thru the night..he definitely listened to all of your prayers and had the night all planned out for me..it was unbelieveable..amazing..and another trace moment i will never forget..thank you ladies..for always being there for me..and for going along with me for what turned out to be one of the "adkinette adventure's" of all times!!..you all mean the world to me!!! ;0)

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