My Dad

[demon chloe]

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my dad would say im still a brat

[Blazey]

You would think after 3 years I would remember.. [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img] ..Mr.P sure wish i had met you..because i'd love to tell you what a wonderful daughter you have..you and her mom taught her so much that the both of you dont even know about..if ever there was a truer more loyal friend i've not seen them..a more caring, kind, loveing person ive not met them..you took all that was in you both to create this special person i call my very best friend..and for that i thank you from the bottom of my heart.. [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

[oranges]

amy and blazey those were the most beautiful things i read. i think both of your parents have truely created something special with each of you and that they are so very lucky. [img]smile.gif[/img]

it doesnt matter where your dad might be amy but im sure he is thinking of you and watchs over you in your times of need, times of love and times of happiness. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[mRs.GaToR]

*HUGS* the Demon tight [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img]

[demon chloe]

So now I ask You

to take my Father

in Your arms, and

hold him gently as

he travels the road

of life with You.





Be with us all, and

give us Your Peace.

~~~

10 years ago today, February 8, 1994 my Dad died. Feels like yesterday. Feels like a million years. Feels like 10 minutes ago when my sister called to say, "Dad had a bad day Amy and he died a few minutes ago. Love you, gotta go." So filled with her own grief and uncertainty about what was happening that no one called me so I could come home and be there before it happened.


I remember vividly being home the weekend before he died, he seemed better to me in some ways. He died on a Tuesday late afternoon. I was baking cupcakes and decorating my apartment for my roommates birthday. My best friend had called...and we talked pretty candidly about what I would do when the dreaded event finally happened. Figured out that St. Cloud was only 60 minutes from Minneapolis and she could be there in 40 and...all the little details. Laughed as we cried because it was horrific, yet soothing to make those plans in advance.

I remember what I was wearing, I remember what was on the tv..... strangely enough it was a cheesy popular sitcom discussing the death of a father.....

As I talked to Shawn, I think for the first time I truly verbalized out loud that my dad was going to die...and probably very soon.

Little did I know...that while we were making those very plans, he died.

Anyway..... 10/28/22 - 2/8/94


My Dad.....
The pushover
The dancing king
Mr grocery shopper
My biggest softball fan
My model for what to be and what not to be
WOrld class cussing machine
Gentle soul
Scary beast
Fishing Buddy
Christmas tree conspirator
Pumpkin carving master
Present hog
Neighborhood Grandpa
The Best


sadly missed but not far from thought~

You are my guiding shining star ~ And locked in my heart you always are.


Love you..... [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

[demon chloe]

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[demon chloe]

ooh..
finally
i am not sad....

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just a bittersweet day [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/kiss.gif[/img]

[JohnUK]

I haven't forgotten the significance of today for you...I'm not religious, but instead there's a candle burning in my living room for your dad right now...

I'm fairly sure I know how you feel...in just over a week, it will be twenty years to the day my own father died - and like you, I can remember the events of that day vividly. I could even tell you the exact sequence of callers that came to pay their respects to my mother... Some days leave an indelible mark on people.

I've had the privilege of meeting your mother, and I can tell everyone that she's a very special lady, and I wish I had had the opportunity to meet your dad too...They both helped to shape you into becoming the amazing person you are today...

Try not to mourn a passing, but celebrate a life instead...

Cheers, Mr P - you did good [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

[JohnUK]

He'd be spot on about you being a brat tho... [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Hehehe...*runs really fast* [img]graemlins/devil.gif[/img]

[Briii]

Chloe...
Seems we do share some things in commono.
For me as well as you...

Time has also taken care of my tears... but no amount of time can erase all my fondest memories with my father.

I now can laugh instead of cry, and embrace the thoughts of him with a smile upon my face as I recall my childhood and brief adolesence with him.

Warm thoughts go to you today from me... [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]