Stray Shots: 08.21.23

I can’t believe the 180 I’ve done on Cee-Lo Green. I used to be such a fan. But there’s no looking past it. F*ck You/Forget You is on the radio right now and I feel absolutely nothing. *Sigh*

At night, I often will lie in bed and watch YouTube until I’m ready to fall asleep. This would preferably be after I finish watching the video I’ve pulled up. I cannot begin to tell you the number of times that I nod off, wake up, rewind back to the last part I was awake for, nod off again, rewind back to the last part I was awake for, etc. Eventually, I nod out and either the TV shuts itself off after YouTube has been running untouched for so long (which is annoying when you try to pull up ocean waves, or a white noise video with space and stars only for YouTube to ask, “Are you still watching this video?” after 5 or so hours). I have to check my watch history in the morning to see what was auto played after I finally succumbed to sleep. This morning, it was Scotland Nature Relaxing Movie 4K – Meditation Relaxing Music – Wonderful Nature. I’m sure it was great. I actually remember turning the TV off last night though.

I figured out my situation from last week’s blog with losing the Down In Mexico sampled beat. It’ll still come out on Soundcloud and Bandcamp before the album. But thankfully, my man No Name Tim had a whole banger just sitting on his site. So that will replace it on the album.

I hopped on a Zoom call with Errick and Marc Rob to talk Rasslecast season 4 on Saturday after work. It looks like we will return to air Monday, September 18th. Episodes will release bi-weekly from there until a week or so after WrestleMania. You can find all of our previous episodes wherever podcasts are podcasted and on my YouTube channel. I might start a Rasslecast channel again and slowly start moving things over there. If it ever takes off, then the channel will be ready.

WVU students walked the f*ck out of their classes today. And rightfully so. I love a good protest. But it seems like the turnout was minimal. And somehow, quiet apathy seems on brand for WVU.

I think my current meal go-to is going to be that egg sandwich that went viral a few years back. I attempted it during Covid and it wasn’t bad but now that I have confidence in my cooking, I’ve made two bomb ass sammichs the last two days. I’m interested to see if I can replicate a decent one using low carb tortillas.

It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Orange Is The New Black debuted. Even harder to believe that I just finished Season 6 with Angel on Saturday night. I was happy how easily I was able to pick up the story considering how long it had been since we watched Season 5. Damn, that was a good ass season.

A Review of The Amazing Spider-Man

From my Letterboxd.

Nov made me rewatch this after his glowing review. And I realized I was wrong.

The experience of seeing Tobey Maguire bring Spider-Man to life in 2002 will always be with me. I can still remember that day vividly, including what seats we were in at the LaVale, MD movie theater.

But I never really gave Andrew Garfield a chance because he wasn’t Tobey. And because I knew we didn’t get Spider-Man 4.

But No Way Home left me with the feeling that Garfield won out of the three Spideys. So I owed it to myself to see it again.

I knew Garfield was the best Spidey from a wisecrack perspective but I always thought he was too cool for Peter Parker. That wasn’t the case with this watch. His Peter is a little too cool at moments but not until after he gets his powers. Peter was definitely cocky after the spider bite in the comics, even after Uncle Ben dies. Pretty is filled with every emotion possible after Ben dies and Garfield manages to convey it all.

I also couldn’t believe how good Martin Sheen was in his short time as Ben. I loved Cliff Robertson’s performance from the Raimi films but the anger in Ben’s voice when Peter broke his promise… that’s real parenting anguish and we’ve all seen it a time or two.

And kudos to Sally Field for her performance as May gets to show the side of May Parker who has lost her husband and apparently her nephew at times in a short time span. I prefer Marissa Tomei’s May only because it’s closer to what we got in Ultimate and her chemistry with Tom Holland shines in No Way Home but Field makes May Parker a person, not just a comic book character brought to life.

Emma Stone is pitch perfect as Gwen. I’ve always put Gwen on a pedestal in my head due to ASM #122 (still want Peter married to MJ though 🙄) and to see her come to life not only erased what Bryce Dallas Howard did in SM3 but it also preceded Gwen Stacy actually being a cool character? Gwen wasn’t cool in the comics until Spider-Gwen; all she did was cry over Peter, break up with him, want to be with him, run away from him, and then she spent an afternoon with the Goblin and Spidey’s webline. Stone’s Gwen is brilliant, funny, still worried about Peter (but he tells her immediately. Such a good move), and not entirely helpless. I love Peter and Gwen in these movies. And yes, she deserved better. Always.

Dennis Leary never moved me until this watch because I just saw Dennis Leary being a cop and a dad. But suddenly, Captain George Stacy was an amazing character. The way he listened to Peter when he came to him about Conners being the Lizard. The way he defended his job against Peter at his dinner table. The way he let Peter go and tried to stop him being shot in the leg after the revelation of his true identity. Even when he made Peter promise to stay away from Gwen as he died. It was a different George Stacy than the comics but it was still a tried and true Captain Stacy. And I was very impressed by him.

And Rhys Ifans a Dr. Curt Conners/the Lizard shined. The Lizard is not the coolest rogue in Spidey’s gallery but almost every time he showed up in Spidey’s early history, he made for great stories. Ifans’ performance is no different here as he also runs across a spectrum of emotions from frustrated to triumphant to scared to consumed with power to his final scenes as he helps save Peter’s life as the antidote takes away his Lizard persona. There’s a reason he made it into No Way Home (besides being TASM’s only good villain) and this movie proves it.

The pieces with Peter’s parents are hit and miss. The cool parts of how much he and Richard are alike. The dangling plot thread as to what happened to them leads nowhere. Knowing that and knowing that Oscorp is but a small cog in the TASM story and not an overarching villain as they hoped, allowed me to minimize its involvement and not overanalyze it too much.

I’ve said way more than I expected. Andrew Garfield is definitely a better Peter Parker/Spider-Man than Tobey. Holland’s films are just so stinking good that I have a hard time putting Garfield over him completely. Garfield is the perfect junior/senior heading to college Peter Parker. He’s what Gerry Conway wrote about after Stan finally gave up ASM. Tom Holland embodies the teenage Peter that started out in Amazing Fantasy #15 as well as the version that Brian Michael Bendis perfected in Ultimate.

I can’t believe it took me 10 years to come around on it. TASM 2 is a big old mess other than the Gwen, Peter, and May parts. Ain’t no coming back from that.

INGWI: Morgantown

20 years ago, I moved away from home.

I had just finished my second year at Potomac State College (PSC). I hadn’t done well outside of my journalism classes, but I was 20, so transferring to another school was my next option.

I wanted to go to West Virginia University (WVU), mostly because that’s where my girlfriend was at the time. I had met her at Potomac State, but she got to start her degree program a year early. She left in 2002, but we stayed in contact and started dating in April of 2003.

I wanted to be near her.

One of my best friends Steve was actually successfully transferring from PSC to WVU but he needed a roommate. So, I now had my ticket to Morgantown. I would move, apply for WVU, and then be able to resume college in the fall.

Somewhere between July 20th and July 27th, 2003, my soon-to-be roommate picked me and my couple of bags up and I was out of my parent’s house. He dropped me off to Angel, we went to a wedding, and he continued on to take my stuff to our apartment. He and Angel had gone and found a place since I was stuck working at the local convenience store back home.

I’ve lived in 3 cities throughout my life: Winchester, Virginia (9 yrs), Capon Bridge, West Virginia (11 yrs), and Morgantown for the rest of it.

So why they hell have I stayed in Morgantown so long?

It just kind of happened that way.

Angel finished school and got a job back home in Keyser, WV. I stayed here because I was attempting to finish school (it did not go well) and then she ended up finding a job 45 minutes away from Morgantown, so she moved back here with me.

Then, her brother and sister started WVU in the fall of 2009 and all 4 of us shared a place until 2012. I tried to finish school again (it really did not go well) and then Angel and I moved into our third place together.

Between 2012 and 2015, we got married, she got pregnant and gave birth to Aaliyah, and she got a job in Morgantown. In addition, I started my current job, which has somehow turned into my career.

I do like it here. I’m used the West Virginia seasons and being in north central WV helps with us not getting slammed too often by bad weather. We end up with a lot of rain, thus the reason I gave Morgantown the nickname Little Seattle.

Plus, I absolutely love rainy days.

When I first moved here, Morgantown still had one of the OG Wal-Marts (no Supercenter) next to Mountaineer Mall that was already dying off. It had Subway, Great Chinese Buffet, and I vaguely remember a pretzel place from when I worked at TeleTech?

Teletech is now TTech. Don’t work there if you can avoid it. Ask Marc Rob.

On the other side of town in the Westover section was the Morgantown Mall. It had a movie theater, food court, and all of the popular shops at the time.

On another side of town was the Glenmark Centre. It was the location of the other Lowe’s (somehow, Morgantown has 2 locations), a Michael’s, a Hallmark, a Pier 1 (gone), and one of several Shop N Saves in town (now Price Cutter).

And the last section is called Sabraton. I remember going over there once for KFC before if closed and sometimes for the Pizza Hut lunch buffet on Sundays.

But to me, since I couldn’t drive (and had no vehicle), everything I wanted was on High Street. High Street was the “main street” of Morgantown. It was right next to the downtown campus, so all the students (including myself) would go to the clubs on weekends. It had several food options and most places stayed open late to accommodate the club goers. During the day, several local businesses operated which are still there today, like Cool Ridge and the BB&T (now Truist on the corner of High Street and Willey Street).

I only cared about the comic book store though, which was about a 10 minute walk from my first apartment on College Avenue.

And just like most cities, Morgantown evolved over time.

But first, still never work at TTech.

The Morgantown Mall is dying. I’d say in another 5 years, most of the stores will be closed. It still has anchor stores like Dunham’s, Ollie’s, and JCPenney but without stores inside, I just don’t see it lasting as a real functioning mall. They did renovate the movie theater after having the second best theater in town since 2005-ish, so having a top-of-the-line AMC may help with that.

I doubt it.

In 2005, the University Town Centre opened. That was where 1 of 2 Wal-Mart Supercenters opened (the other is 10 minutes from downtown) as well as a bevy of other thriving stores and restaurants such as Target, Olive Garden, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, and Dick’s Sporting Goods. In the past few years, it was expanded to include a Menard’s, Kohl’s, and PetSmart.

Its 5 minutes from the mall, which doesn’t help their case.

I’m not sure on the year but we also have a Suncrest Towne Centre which has more local shops and more restaurants. It’s close to the football stadium, which makes it an ideal spot for fans coming to and leaving games.

Glenmark Centre is now Pierpont Centre and remains the same. Five minutes up the road, they’ve opened Pierpont Landing which has more shops and restaurants.

Sabraton has also changed for the better with more restaurants than anything. It still gets a bad rap as too out of the way and too low-brow for some, but it’s less than 10 minutes from my house and I find the entire area very useful.

KFC did open a new location. Popeye’s is there. And I now get my teeth cleaned in my dentist office that used to be Pizza Hut.

Suffice to say, Morgantown has access to everything I need on a regular basis. Which makes that another reason I stay.

High Street still has clubs, local shops, and restaurants. I’ve aged out of it a bit but I still like to wander down there every now and again. My first comic book store closed a few years after I got here. My favorite comic book store, Gary’s Comic and More, was forced to close a few years back due to escalating rent.

I guess the only issue I have with Morgantown is when WVU is in session.

When you share a city with college students, it can get crowded. Especially when the city isn’t very big to begin with. Every August, 20,000+ students come into town and head to their dorms, apartments, and houses until the following May. And every year, us townies (as we call ourselves) have to adjust to the sudden swell in population and the congestion on the roads as the traffic rises before leveling out about a month and a half later.

Other than that, I could care less about the students. I’m far enough away from campus and the dorms that I’m only exposed to students when I choose to be. I’ve also been living this way for 20 years. But a part of me wonders what it would be like to live in a city without a major college campus in the middle of it.

So unless one of us gets a job out of state, or Aaliyah graduates and moves, or we hit the lottery, we’re in Morgantown for the duration. I’ve never been to a city and felt like I wanted to live there. Not DC, not Cleveland, not Indianapolis, not really Miami (great place to visit). I’ve always wanted to go to Seattle but I doubt I’d live there. If I got to choose, it would be somewhere that has very mild winters, a beach within reasonable driving distance, and safe from hurricanes.

Would that be Imperial Beach, California?

But I am happy here. My family is happy here. But I do know I won’t be here forever. I’ve seen too much of the world to stay. But I’ll continue to enjoy my time here. My 20s and 30s have been pretty good here. Let’s see if I make it through all of my 40s as a townie as well.

As of right now, my heart is still in Playa del Carmen back in Mexico. That would be nuts.

Stray Shots: 08.07.23

Why in the world do people choose to go out in terrible weather? Look, I get you have to run errands sometimes, but why in the hell do you look outside when you’re not in the rain or snow and think, “I need to go out in this!” when you don’t have to?

People lack common sense. Or maybe they have to prove something to themselves.

I broke out the Wii with Aaliyah for the first time in a while last night. We played Swordplay, Golf, and Table Tennis on Wii Sports Resort. She eventually wanted to move on to something else so I thought I’d play a game against the CPU on Table Tennis.

Three hours later, I turned the Wii off for the night. I’ve never liked table tennis. I was awful at it when I tried to play at Potomac State and I’ve never tried again. But last night, I must have played 20+ games and I definitely lost more than I won.

Also, there’s almost no info on the internet about how to be a better Wii Sports Resort Table Tennis player. Just some speedruns and a couple top spin/back spin tutorials. There was also a bunch of content about trying to beat the champion Lucia but I can’t even put more than 2 wins in a row together.

Needless to say, I left the Wii hooked up in our living room. Despite somehow tweaking my knee and my whole right arm being sore, I will return to the resort to try to get better at Table Tennis. I want to see Lucia crush my hopes and dreams in person, dammit!

And maybe, I’ll finally find a way to drag the table tennis set that Aaliyah got for Christmas into the basement and set it up. Even though I know I’ll be trash. It’s only 300 pounds…

We also watched the Super Mario Bros. movie now that it’s on Peacock. You can read my review over on my Letterboxd.

Despite my feelings on Vince McMahon needing to be removed completely from the company and sent to the fiery pits, I’ve been following WWE pretty closely again and watched SummerSlam almost in its entirety. It was a hell of a show and for the first time in ages, I wanted Roman to lose. The Bloodline story seems to be treading water a bit with how Roman ended up retaining, but I will continue to trust the process as everything is lining up for Roman/Cody II at WrestleMania XL. And Cody looked like a true superstar who is really ready to finish the story now.

Ugh, why does such a good product have to have such a horrible man still involved?

I took Friday off because Angel and I are going to Pittsburgh to attend the Barrel & Flow Festival on Saturday afternoon. It’ll be our 4th time going and Barrel & Flow was just named the #1 beer festival in America by USA Today.

Crap, that means it’ll be even more packed. Good news for Ed and Day though.

Stray Shots: 7.31.23

Can anyone tell me why guys wear their sunglasses backwards on their head? It can’t be to not mess up their hair. It’s all I saw in Mexico and it drove me nuts. Well, the brief 5 minutes total I gave it power over my brain. I just don’t understand it. Don’t blame Guy Fieri either. He does it so they fall in soup. Not that he always eats soup… you know what I mean!

I’ve given up on hope for something to replace Twitter (X). Threads seemed like the best shot and I still enjoy it a lot. But all of their forward momentum has stopped. They could have rolled out a ton of updates but they seem satisfied just existing. X seems to keep chugging along in spite of itself. I’ll continue to use it until a real viable alternative shows up. Which might not happen.

But if they want me to pay for X, you can forget about it.

I started listening to The Blog Era podcast and it’s living up to the hype. It’s been fun to relive that time of hip-hop, especially as someone who made being on the hip-hop blogs a daily habit. I’m on the Kid Cudi/Charles Hamilton episode and it’s making me reconsider going back and at least listening to the Charles Hamilton projects from The Hamiltonization Process since I haven’t in years.

Pee-wee Herman died. I hadn’t even thought about him in years. I enjoyed his show, I loved Pee-wee’s Big Adventure as a kid, but that’s where it stopped. He meant a lot to people. I’m not excusing the exposing himself in public but that’s why it’s called a legacy I suppose.

Angus Cloud passed away at 25 today too. No cause of death was given.

Mental health is too important.

Marc Rob is on a road trip and I was able to catch up with him at Super Red Bowl. Why in the hell I insist on taking visitors to a place that does a number on my stomach is pretty silly. I did the same thing with Matt in January.

But the food was good. Always is. I feel like I’m ordering off menu when I ask for a shirley temple and the waiter says they don’t have that. I always say they’ll make it and they do. And they’re so damn tasty.

And as always, Marc Rob made me think. I already recognized the full moon coming tonight (plus it’s full moon in Aquarius) but he helped confirm a few things I was already feeling.

I really need to ask people what’s been bringing them joy lately. He’s so damn good at asking real questions that mean so much.

I’m going to try to make this August count. I’m always so quick to discount it because it’s the last full month of summer and it makes me sad to lose my favorite season again. But I’m going to make a conscious effort to make the best of it this year.

Maybe that’ll make the transition into fall a little easier.

I don’t know.

INGWI: For Barbara, For Her 70th

It was a milestone birthday. That’s what’s got me out of sorts. You would’ve been 70 today. You wouldn’t have looked like it though.

Angel and I just got back from Playa del Carmen in Mexico for our 10th wedding anniversary. It was incredible. The food was good, the drinks were good, and it was so nice to get away for a week. I go back to work tomorrow. Same place, different job title.

But I’m sure you already know that.

Aaliyah started WVU gymnastics camp today and she finishes tomorrow. I’m so proud of everything she’s accomplished as a gymnast so far. She’s starting to get into volleyball a little bit though, so we’ll see if anything comes of that.

I finished watching Creed II today. You remember how I used to love watching the Rocky movies. Creed is about Apollo Creed’s son, Adonis. I think the first movie came out a few months after you passed.

Anyway, there’s a lot of parent drama in there between Adonis and his newborn daughter, and then Drago (from Rocky IV, the Russian!) and his son, and then Creed and Apollo (they never got to meet because Drago killed Apollo), and then Rocky and his son.

When Rocky and his son were reunited at the end, I bawled like a baby. I’ve been needing to cry for days. I tried in Mexico on Wednesday and I couldn’t really do it. But I was sobbing this morning. Anything with parents in any form of media hits me like a ton of bricks.

Dad’s doing okay. He was out on the town on Friday night. His resiliency is awe-inspiring for me. Man still takes care of business. I’m very thankful he’s still here.

I texted Beamer. I try to see him when I can but we’re close for such short amounts of time, so it’s hard to link up.

I guess that’s always my excuse. I’m only here for a short time, sorry. It’s a shitty excuse but it’s the truth. But I could put a little more effort on my side.

Michael reached out to me when I was depressed a few months ago and we had a really good conversation. He wants to record and I have the equipment and the knowledge for how to do that. We missed each other at Apple Blossom and I actually haven’t been back home since.

I really do want to record him. He’s a way more talented rapper than I could ever be. But I have to make more of an effort on my side. I know that. I just have to start actually doing it.

I tried texting Will when we were in town but I didn’t get a response. I got his number from Von at the funeral and he responded back. His number could have changed. I hope he’s doing okay. He didn’t come to the funeral.

I believe you and Paul are back together now. He did the best he could without you for almost 8 years then decided he had enough.

I kid. You know what he went through. It’s funny; Travis was on the phone both times when I got horrible news. You in 2015 and Paul last summer. I know he didn’t do it on purpose and if you’re reading this, you do a really good job at it, Travis. Hell of a consolation prize.

We brought Aaliyah down to see Paul the weekend before he passed. It was the first time we had seen him since before he got sick. He lit up a little bit when he saw her. He was always so good with her. Christmas of 2021, he was watching her play with his guitar, happy.

And then he was gone in less than a year.

Cancer is the worst. Paul. Bonnie. You. Granddad.

I don’t even know exactly what happened to you. The doctor’s just said you were weak but they didn’t think you had another stroke. They dumped you in hospice so you could rehabilitate and then I got the call that following Friday. Pretty sure it was a blood clot though.

After I had been in your hospital room that Monday. I’m sorry I had to leave you there and I couldn’t take you with me like you wanted.

There’s nothing like not being able to do the last thing your mother wanted from you.

I know there’s nothing I could have done. You called me a week or so before you went to the hospital saying you needed… help. But I told you I wasn’t sure if that kind of help was available in Morgantown. But I said that I would try to help you find something.

I think you knew then; you knew something was wrong. That you didn’t have much time left. And I don’t know if getting you the help you were asking for faster would’ve kept you here or not. I definitely listened to what you asked me to do but I don’t think I heard you.

Until it was too late.

Somehow, I don’t blame myself. Could you imagine how much more of a mess I’d be if I did?

Anyway…

I found the video I shot on Nikki’s old camera of me and Angel at Euclid not too long ago. Angel had just finished kicking my ass in rummy. Again.

We played rummy when we were at Ocean City one night last month. And despite me actually playing well, guess what? Angel kicked my ass again.

Paul said in the video that I did get pretty upset when I lose at cards.

But you said, “But he’s getting better.”

I love you for that. You always had a way of being positive and making me feel better.

You always supported stuff I was into, no matter how silly. Transformers, Turtles (you got me the sewer playset!), basketball cards, etc. You got me a Gameboy shortly after you moved into the Bellview apartments. We used to trade it back and forth playing Tetris and then you got me a couple other games when you could.

I have to admit, as dirty as Bellview was, I always loved it because it was your place. And that’s how I felt about anywhere you and Paul stayed too. I loved you having a place of your own. And I loved being with you.

I spent hours laying on that carpet in the apartment copying pictures of Spider-Man from the latest issue of Spectacular Spider-Man that I had.

Drawing on your yellow notebook paper and using your nice pens.

Watching Disney Afternoon when you picked me up after school from John Kerr and then how you surprised me with a Darkwing Duck figure (another thing I was into at one point).

Watching an NFL Films marathon the weekend of the first Cowboys/Bills Super Bowl as I watched 30 minute recaps of every Super Bowl.

There was even this kid’s soap opera that used to come on Nickelodeon that you watched even when I wasn’t there. Fifteen I think? And you’d catch me up on the stories I was missing when I was at home.

And that damn yellow car. I can still hear the doors opening and closing on the Goose as it was affectionately named. It was easily the loudest looking car I’ve ever ridden in. But I loved it because it was your car and I was with you.

And you loved Angel so much from the first time you met her. We walked into Euclid for the first time and it was like you had known her for years. You two were thick as thieves.

I pray I never find out exactly what you got up to at her bachelorette party.

I loved when you would come and stay with us in Morgantown for a week or so every summer. It was so nice having you there. I remember when Angel and I lived on Green Street and you came up. One night, Angel went to bed and you and I stayed up watching the first Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes movie. You kept saying how stupid and silly it was.

But you laughed through the entire movie. We laughed through the entire movie. It was one of the best nights I had with you as an adult. Your laughter was so contagious as is so when you really go going, it was hard not to laugh with you.

I’m watching my neighbor help his mom into the house. She took his arm for extra support just like you used to take mine and I just want to sit on the concrete floor of the garage and sob. But I won’t. Aaliyah wants to read another Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, so I’ll do that instead.

I think you saw me reading one of those before. I’m pretty sure you called it stupid and then laughed. Just like you would anytime I mentioned Scrubs.

And the love of reading, how could I forget? All of that came from you. You would always have your nose in a book. And now, I always have my nose in a book. Not as much as usual with my Kindle app and my Google Books app but still, I’m always reading something.

Just like you.

And Aaliyah reads all the time. She’s 9 so there’s a fight about it sometimes. But she’s so good at reading and she reads all kinds of genres already. I know she gets it from you (having a teacher for a mother helps as well).

And it’s crazy how much she looks like you sometimes. I did not expect that. Paul even showed me a picture of you from when you were little and the resemblance is uncanny. She just doesn’t have your trademark freckles.

I feel like I’m rambling now. I just wanted to commemorate your milestone birthday somehow, so I figured just writing to you was the easiest way.

I miss you. And I love you.

But before I go, I just wanted to thank you again for coming to Morgantown for my birthday in 2011. This is when E would throw the birthday bash at Buck’s for my birthday (a show and a party? I was a genius). I remember you being in tears and I wasn’t exactly sure why.

You said you were just so happy to get to see me perform and getting to meet all of my friends and seeing how much everyone loved me. And that you were proud of me. So naturally, I started crying. So here we were, mother and son, crying in the middle of a bar.

And there wasn’t one moment in my life where I didn’t know you were proud of me. I always could tell. But that was the first time I remember hearing it as an adult. Or maybe it was more special because of the time and place. But those words and your tears of joy were everything to me in that moment.

And as much as you said you were happy that I was so loved, I know I’m not the only one who misses you. Everyone loved you. My friends loved you too. Angel loved you. She’s instilled her love for you in Aaliyah. Everyone in the family loved you.

Today’s been hard but that’s okay. Grief never ends. I’m okay with that.

I’ll never be okay without you but I’ll be alright. Just not today. Maybe tomorrow.

I love you.

 

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