I know people say the big occasions when you miss someone are Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, or the day when someone died. This year I am especially missing you, Charles, on Valentine’s Day. To the world you didn’t seem like a very sentimental person but I knew the sentimental, romantic you. I looked forward to my poems that you wrote to me. I knew that you had to spend time in writing them. I miss your hugs, your phone calls to just tell me that you loved me, your waiting for me when I would come home from a difficult day, your off the wall comments that would always make me laugh, and just so many other things that you did that made up the person I will always love.
Well, it has been almost two years and it still seems like yesterday. Sometimes I can still hear your voice and sense your presence in the house. I have kidded that we “meet” at Hobby Lobby because they have played your favorite song, “Lord of the Dance”, when I’m there. When it comes on, I just stop dead in my tracks.
You told me before you died that you wanted me to have fun. You even bought me a “fun” car with everything I wanted on it. It took me a while, but I am having fun. Thank you for teaching me how to take care of myself, and how to be independent.
Tomorrow, I will remember all of the wonderful Valentine Days that we had together and just be thankful for those times. I had a once in a lifetime love—thank you!
DR
2/13/12
