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them at restaurants. It started orders for 50 to 100 hearts at a time
small; he’d give them to strangers for future trips. Heartman hearts
and acquaintances and let his have also been to: Mae Sai, Thailand;
family pick out a few from the
dozens he’d made since they last
met.
He donated hundreds of them to
Camp Blue Haven, a Christian
summer camp in Las Vegas,
New Mexico, where several of
his children and grandchildren
attended and worked, and
where his son David had met
So, in the spring of 2013, when his wife 35 years ago. The funds
Jearldyne (“Granny” to the Kelleys) raised from the hearts, sold at
suffered a bout of pancreatitis Blue Haven, go to caring for its
and was hospitalized for several beautiful, woodsy grounds.
weeks, Ralph started carving little
wooden hearts, small enough to By now, Ralph’s hearts are all
fit in your palm. He’d hand them over the world. He sent his hearts
out to Jearldyne’s caregivers or on a mission trip to Honduras,
housekeepers or waiters who served after which people started placing
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