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And today, under a very blue sky and fall-like temperatures, Gwen, 66, and Clyde, 67, pause at their llama farm for an hour with a reporter to talk about their plans - to leave all that behind.
“I hope people will understand, if you write this, that we do have to sell the farm first, and that could take some time," says Gwen Hays, with a puckish grin. “We will eventually leave. We don’t know when. We hope it’s tomorrow." At this point, both she arid her husband, wearing matching striped shirts, break into big smiles.
The reason they’re leaving, which Gwen announced in a typically cheerful and matter-offact email last week to the Rappnet community list-serve, an email bulletin board for residents and friends of Rappahannock, is partly that she and her husband have become too ill to continue running the farm the way they’d like.
She suffers from a form of inherited neuropathy that severely limits her movement and stamina; Clyde endures the effects of Parkinson’s, restless legs syndrome (RLS) and, most
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