Dad.....we had one hour of complete consciousness together, you held my hand and said my name...I will always hear you say it that way.
I got my last E-mail from you yesterday and it was sent about an hour before you realized you had a stroke. What I loved to see at the end of your e-mail was ...love you, dad. You never signed it that way, it was always "hugs and kisses your favorite father"...again you made me feel so incredibly special by that.  Marc and I found the two trees you had left in the yard next to the two that you had planted, we will always wonder what made you not plant those two but one of them will be in my yard, and Marc is planting the other in his. Your Grandson Mikel loves you so much and apparently you two had a closer relationship than I thought but he is filling me in on all your travels together and alot were shared in tears and the other was in side splitting laughter. He will never forget you and neither will I. Like you said last week, you and I are more alike than we thought. I can't even begin to tell you how proud I am to know that. Dad, we wish we knew before you got your fancy helicopter ride that you would go into a Coma and never wake up because I would have told you so much more. I would give anything on this world to have 5 more minutes with you, but I'm hoping you know what was in my heart. I will always see you giving us all the O.K sign with your right hand just before you took off for your flight. The only way I can take that is that you told me that you were going to be ok on your journey to a better place...
Love your favorite daughter...krissy##imported-begin##kristina##imported-end##