Dear Dad,
You’ve been gone for just over a year. We laid you to rest just shy a of a year ago.
It’s been a year.
A year of tears when I least expect them.
A year of memories surfacing as I drive Hunter to school
or when I am in the shower.
Last summer, I went to the Veterans Home and shared about your funeral with your amazing caregivers. They hugged me when I choked up. And thanked me.
I thanked them, too. For everything. For seven years of caring for you. And me. And Hunter.
I know you are Hunter’s guardian angel. I feel it in my bones. That near-miss accident in Anchorage was when I knew for sure. Thank you.
Next month we’ll pass over another milestone – one year since your funeral. I know that eventually I will stop marking time this way. Just not today.
I love you, dad.
anniericci 