Happy 8th Birthday Hannah
Dear Hannah,
Well, today you’d be 8 years old. Your actual birth time was 10:00pm on June 5, 2001. You took your time arriving but it was worth every minute spent in uncomfortable hospital chairs and eating vending machine food to keep us going.
I’ve missed you quite a bit the last few weeks. It’s your first birthday without your Mom so it’s got me sad. As I’ve mentioned before June ranks right up with October for months I could just as well do without. This year, the sadness is a little more like an empty feeling. I’m sure it will eventually pass but I don’t think that the passing of time will make this day any easier. We’re doing OK I suppose. It’s hard to know sometimes but things haven’t fallen apart completely so I take that as a good sign.
Allie and I will do something a little special today, just not sure what quite yet. Perhaps a balloon release or something similar. You’ll know it when it happens. I don’t think I can write anymore so I’ll just say good-bye for now.
Lots of Love
Daddy and Allie
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