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A Tragic Figure

As some of you may know, Baron Clark von Tonner escaped heart-ache in Europe by emigrating to Canada to start a new life with his young wife, Dierdre, and five children...Sandy, Betsy, Ann, Sophie and Georgia. The von Tonners spoke little of the money and land they left behind in their native Germany, or of the heart-break that drove them away from their country. Shortly after their arrival in Canada, Baroness von Tonner had an unfortunate reaction to a bee sting and left this earthly existence, leaving Clark with a young family to raise on his own. A young floozie named Cissy tried to capture his affections, but he could think only of his dear wife and also the seering pain that he so stoically hid. What was it that broke his heart so, so far away in Europe? You're about to find out.

In the middle of a dark and icy night, three years ago, in the Bavarian town of Bertchesgaden, the von Tonner family was happily asleep in their castle when the unthinkable happened. In the morning, they awoke to find that their young two-year-old twins, William and Gretyl, had been stolen from their beds in the night. In there place was a ransom note that bore a warning for the rest of the family. The abductors wanted 5 million Deutch Marks for the return of the twins. The von Tonners gladly sold the house and raised the money, but they never saw their precious babies again. For fear that their other children might meet the same fate, they left everything for a new life. Now, I'm here to tell you that miracles do happen. Every day, Clark prayed for one and, three years later, at their cabin home in the backwoods of northern British Columbia, young William was returned to his family. In this album, you will be a part of the tear-wrenching reunion between a father and his beloved son. Get out your hankies.