Daddy... These are some of my favorite and most special memories of you. With these, you will always be alive in my heart... *Warming up my car every morning *Playing "The Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston on my answering machine in college, when my self-esteem was low. *Our last dance when you touched my cheek during the "Sara Smile" line and when you mouthed "You and Me Forever" *Mom telling me you held my 'goodbye' letter to your heart for an hour before you let her read it. *For quietly taking my hand in the limo on the way to my wedding, and saying "This is your last ride... as a single woman" *For your hearty laugh when you knew you were being wicked... *For following me out to my car, while on the phone, before I left (a few weeks before my wedding) and saying "Sarah, I am not mad about the M------" * When I couldn't get my plane to my honeymoon, and could have gone home to spend the day with you... you told me "stay home and rest, don't come here, get rested for your honeymoon...that way you won't be mean to each other and cranky when you travel tomorrow" * For leaving me a message at the front desk of the hotel the night of my wedding and waiting up until midnight for my call, because we didn't say 'goodbye'. *When I called to leave my number in the Bahamas, you said "i'd never call MY parents on my honeymoon"...then asked if our couples massage was 'with release'..?! * A few days before my wedding, you apologized to me for not helping more, but for being a 'black cloud' over my day. *Everytime I told you I was sorry about your ever gloomier prognosis... you said "I know you are honey"... *When I told you I was thinking of you on the phone a week before my wedding, you replied "I know you are, and I am thinking of you... especially every morning when I look at your pictures in my closet... I can't believe I am going to leave my babies... *For hoping you made it through christmas, because you didn't want to put US through that during the holidays.. *For grooming, preparing, planning and passing on on YOUR terms... * For our last phone conversation, asking me if I was having fun on my honeymoon, what date I was returning, and saying "I can't wait to see you"...sadly, you couldn't. (Monday the 21st of November 2005) *For flying me out to see Maddi when I missed her birth and for our ngiht at the bar when "snowed into" the detroit airport. *For seeing me throught my wedding...without oxygen! *For always saving my mail that came to the house for me, even if it was junk. *For always telling us not to thank you for dinner because you "are the daddy, and that's your job" *For sending me flowers every Valentine's day of my life... *For your humor during your illness and for saying "alright, if I am dying... let's get the fuck out of this hospital and LIVE" We had a great dinner that night, you only cried for a minute cause you'd leave things a mess" *For kissing me at the alter and simply saying "Goodbye" *For finding this house for me and coming to see it before I did...and then for the weeks of labor and 'Dave time' you contributed... *For designing my car especially for me... I could think of 100 more, for all of these reasons I will miss you every day daddy, but you will always be with me... I LOVE YOU!!! XOX

All of the love in my heart forever.... Sarah-Bear

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