That's so wonderful to hear, MG.
Ann, I got tickled at myself because when I read your phrase "There is a gift in all of this somewhere for each of us...." what flashed through my mind was a moment from "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". You know, where all the kids are looking in their halloween bags saying what they got at the last house... "I got a candy bar", "I got an apple", Charlie Brown.... "I got a rock."
Rock on, anons.