Fourth of July, 2007

It is almost one year since you took my hand, and we have shared so much of ourselves, and now, with this Holiday, have celebrated all of the major American holidays together.
Even with all that I have learned about you in our hundreds of hours of conversation, I am still finding out new things;

that even though you were only in Forty Fort for one year, you had time to dump Carol for Megan
that you drove like crazy down the road from Ricketts Glen to get your burned friend to the hospital
that your class was the last one to graduate from your high school and that it is now an Elementary School

and most of all that Victory Pig Pizza is sold by the cut.

Thank you for sharing some of your childhood stories with me
and for inviting me to be in the stories of your life to come.

I love you more than ever.

Susie