A tribute to Buddy.

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Let me set this story up some. About 3 years ago, I had an Umbrella Cockatoo that I absolutely loved, his name is Buddy. My wife at the time, now my ex, who wanted the bird before we ever bought him, could not stand him anymore and wanted me to get rid of him. I eventually did, thinking it may even help our marriage that was not doing well at the time. I relinquished him to a well known local adoption person I kind of knew, and she does a great job of finding birds good homes with the birds needs put first. Well that was about 3 years ago, and last week I wrote the adoption person to ask if she ever found Buddy a home, and if not if there is a way I could be reunited with him. She replied with this information:"He was adopted into a family with a 14 yr old (at that time) son that had cancer and was undergoing treatment. Buddy has remained a constant companion for his now almost 17yr old human caregiver. Buddy has seen him through most of his chemo and radiation treatments, and his second bout with another form of cancer. He is a very much loved and respected member of the family, and has been loaned to me for use at a few library programs that I have done for children's reading programs. He continues to be a very flashy, show off bird, and loves to steal all the attention. Kids love to see him, because he raises his crest and lifts his wings to kind of say, "look at me, I am beautiful". And he knows he is:) I explained that I wished I could say that it would be wonderful to reunite the two of you, but I know that Buddy has been a great driving force is making sure that his caregiver remains healthy."How cool is that. I'm sad that I can't be with him again, but so happy he is making the life of a sick child better! I always knew he was wonderful, this is just more proof. Thanks for reading, Jim