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Happy birthday, by the way. I just thought I’d write to you, since I never really did It’s been two years now two complete rotations around the sun since you died. I probably think about you every week- believe it or not, you changed my whole outlook on life But I’m sorry to say it didn’t happen until you left. I think about you every time I leave the house in the morning I think about how sudden it was and how that happens every day to all kinds of people even you. I think about you every time I say goodbye to anyone especially if the person I’m saluting is getting into a car and when I say goodbye I say it as heartfully as I can and I hope that maybe they’ll realize that I’m saying “I love you” and “please, for the love of god, drive safely. please.” all in one word. Because if I said it openly like that they’d all think I was totally mental. I’m not mental. I’m just a lover and a fighter who lost something he didn’t even think he had the option of losing. I think about you when I hug anyone. because you never know.   and hugs are not ever worth half-assing.                        ever.   So maybe I lied. and maybe I actually think about you multiple times a day every day of my life.    not consciously i guess.       but I can tell you for certain that your absence is felt           in one way or another                       every                                    day                              of my life. I wish I could have learned these lessons without losing you.                         but you went all the same                                          and here we all are.              anyways happy birthday.                                                         Miss you.
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Nov 20, 2013
Nov 20, 2013 at 3:16 PM UTC
Birthday
Happy birthday, by the way. I just thought I’d write to you, since I never really did It’s been two years now two complete rotations around the sun since you died. I probably think about you every week- believe it or not, you changed my whole outlook on life But I’m sorry to say it didn’t happen until you left. I think about you every time I leave the house in the morning I think about how sudden it was and how that happens every day to all kinds of people even you. I think about you every time I say goodbye to anyone especially if the person I’m saluting is getting into a car and when I say goodbye I say it as heartfully as I can and I hope that maybe they’ll realize that I’m saying “I love you” and “please, for the love of god, drive safely. please.” all in one word. Because if I said it openly like that they’d all think I was totally mental. I’m not mental. I’m just a lover and a fighter who lost something he didn’t even think he had the option of losing. I think about you when I hug anyone. because you never know.   and hugs are not ever worth half-assing.                        ever.   So maybe I lied. and maybe I actually think about you multiple times a day every day of my life.    not consciously i guess.       but I can tell you for certain that your absence is felt           in one way or another                       every                                    day                              of my life. I wish I could have learned these lessons without losing you.                         but you went all the same                                          and here we all are.              anyways happy birthday.                                                         Miss you.
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Nov 20, 2013
Nov 20, 2013 at 3:16 PM UTC
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