Erika to me was my girl friend.She was intelligent strong minded she had a personality that drawed people to her.Not only was she going to be my life time companion she was my friend she was very picky about what she ate some times stuborn but loving and cared about her family and friends.she would always talk about goigoing back to cali and taking me with her she hated the texas heat Erika u will always be missed but not forgotten love donte

This by far is one of the hardest post I've had to write. Never in a million years would I ever have thought I would be posting this on YOUR page. I couldn't even sleep last night. Every time I started to doze off I kept seeing ur face or hearing ur voice and I thought it was a dream u were gone. I kept checking Facebook praying there would be a post from you saying ur account was hacked. That post never came. All I see are messages from the lives you've touched over the years. Moments and memories flooded my mind all night. Remember when we went to ATL during the Olympics and my cousin hooked us up with those passes to Jack the Rapper! So many celebrities around us and all u wanted to do was get a pic with Treach from Naughty By Nature. Well, u got it! The 10pm walks around Lake Merritt when I lived on Fairmont (We were fearless and crazy back then). Even taking the wrong ferry from Staton Island and having to ride the bus through Jersey (which we both agree was like riding through West Oakland) So many moments, so many memories. These I will treasure. E, E Money, Flirty McCurty, E Dizzle "Wrecka". We just spoke on my birthday when u called me at 11:45pm and said, "Yeah I know it's late but IT STILL COUNTS. I didn't want ur ass calling and cussing me out thinking I forgot 808" LOL -- I'll even miss the way u used to say something to annoy me and keep at it like the annoying little sister u are. I take comfort in knowing ur in Nancy's arms where you'll be safe. I'll miss u Sis. Rest in Paradise 

We lived in Dallas and would go for our walks Against Ovarian Cancer. There was a bike trail by her first apartment in Plano and we would walk it for 2 to 3 miles several times out of the week. We walked and talked and spoke to the folks on the trail. She would laugh saying I was being way too friendly. Living in New York for a few years she said you just minded your busines. The funny part about us is that after we walked we would go to the corner store and buy junk and give all of our calorie burning back. But we had fun with the whole process. And those times with my friend was priceless.


We would have our girls night out on paydays. We called them field trips because we took public transportation. She was closer to the Dart train than I was so I would drive to her house, park my truck and we'd throw on our tennis shoes and catch Dart to a new restaurant then off to the movies we went. We tried so many restaurants we were going to start blogging about the different places in the City but neither one of us ever took notes when we went so we'd forget by the time we got back what to say. We would cry laughing every time we realized we didn't have enough information to make it worth reading. Those were the greatest times. She was definitely down to roll. You could always count on Erika.

this was after one of our appts at the shop .... we stayed doing different colors
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