Tuesday, August 25, 2009

old friends/bookends

my friend rhys would have been 36 today

but he's not, because he died nearly a year ago

36. i can't believe it

we met in 1992, when i was 17, which is half my lifetime ago, and we were best friends and bf/gf for 6 years. we pretty much grew up together before we grew apart

i'm not alone in this opinion when i say i think he has been one of the best people i have ever known

even though we were only in sporadic contact over the last few years, i always knew he was out there in the world, with his very cool wife and beautiful kids

i thought we had plenty of time to be friends

i'm really grateful that we got to hang out right before he got really sick, and i got to see him being a dad and a grown up and a husband

i miss him

a lot

2 comments:

  1. Thinking about you. I only remember him as a cute kid-he would have been about 11 when I knew him. Hope you're ok, xx

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  2. thanks, princess fiona XXX thinking about you, too

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