Dearest Roy, It's hard to know I haven't seen you in a month. This was the weekend you would have been moving into college dorms after celebrating your "lil sis" Anna Lisa's 1st Birthday. We had everything ready for you to go to St. Francis College. Your clothes were packed, towels and tolietries ready and all the paperwork and class scheduling was DONE finally! I was still so sad you were leaving to go to the dorms, even though I would see you every night for dinner, as crazy as that sounds. What a summer we spent preparing you for this journey by sending out SAT scores, getting copies of transcripts, opening your first checking account, successfully completing real estate school and getting a high score on the school exam, writing the essay for the college application, finding out you got a scholarship, dealing with the remaining financial aid (18,000 trips to Remsen St), getting your driver license back in order (damn $170 cab ride), student loans, applying for student housing (and I got you to the front of that line haha) and having a FULL TIME JOB AS A BROKER LINED UP after graduation. Who was better than you a month and 2 days ago? Despite all the careful plans we made together, it was just that God had other, perhaps better plans and he took you away from us as part of that plan. Wherever his plan lead you, and as complete as you may feel with your dad, I hope you know how much we love you and how picture perfect you made our lives, how you enriched our home with your happy spirit and 24/7 laughter and great jokes and how much of the love you brought into our home is still here even though you are gone. Thank you for being a part of our lives. Angelo, Anna Lisa and I are dreaming of the day when we can be a real "family of 4" again. xoxoxo Your ever-adoring cousins, Cousin Lisa, Angelo and Anna Lisa
