Mara

I don't know Mara that well, but from what I do know; I can tell that she is great for Shelly. When I met Mara, I had a wonderful first impression. She was super nice and friendly to Shelly even though Shelly was giving her a little trouble. She asked questions and I knew that she wanted to get to know everything about Shelly, so she could become Shelly's best friend just like I had been. She wanted the best for Shelly just like I had wanted. And I am absolutely sure that Mara is doing the best that she can do to live up to my friendship with Shelly. Mara has become a friend to me (well at least I think so), I have someone to talk to about Shelly and about horses and she has someone to ask questions about Shelly when she needs them answered and someone to congratulate her when she wins shows with Shelly and when she has a breakthrough with Shelly too. When I asked Mara for her contact information, she didn't resist almost as if she wanted to ask me for mine before she had the chance. 

Andrea didn't like Mara purely because she felt like she was taking Shelly away from us, but I reminded her that David was not the right home for Shelly and that Shelly was not a show horse, she wasn't meant to be left in a stall all day. She was meant to see daylight and she was meant to have a friend who she saw everyday, not some girls who came twice a week and said hi and braided her forelock once in a while and gave her baths when told to. She was meant to have a friend who would sit with her for hours and brush her everyday and re-braid her forelock every morning and give her baths whenever she felt like it and for someone to buy her Christmas presents and someone to work with her everyday to build a relationship; and I feel the right person for that job in the end wasn't Andrea or me, it was Mara. God gave the job to Mara because he knew that she would be there forever for Shelly, he knew that David would never let Andrea or me buy Shelly; but God knew a girl perfect for Shelly and as much as I wish it was me, at the end of the day the person for Shelly is Mara and it will always be Mara. God blessed Shelly and Mara both with wonderful best friends and God blessed me with the chance to find myself a horse that I can own and build a friendship with and that I can always be there for. God does everything for a reason and his reason for having Mara be able to buy Shelly was a great reason!