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Hi Bobby,

Five years now. It just doesn't seem possible.

I'm not much of a poet or writer, but I thought a poem would be a special way to mark this anniversary. So here is my humble attempt, written over the course of a week or so leading up to today, with the last stanza just this morning.

The time is long since you've been gone.
So young, so suddenly.
Swift pass the years, but they don't stop the tears
Of our grief and our misery.

I call your name, my brightest flame,
But no answer comes to me.
You won't return and we must learn
To deal with what must be.

With our last breath and taste of death
We will join you on this journey.
But while we remain, in life and pain
You live in our memory.

When Deanna and I got the memorial tattoos last year, we didn't know then that it would motivate her to take an apprenticeship and learn to do them herself. But it has worked out for me to add even more ink to my chest in your memory, including the portrait and lion that Deanna has done. So with the new additions, now it still has more to go... to add flames around the lion head, and maybe more. Deanna also had Jeanne add a Korean dragon (4-claws) to her memorial tattoo, turning her quarter-sleeve into a half-sleeve.

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Be good Bobby! I love you and miss you very much!

Love always,
Dad

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