While my friend and I were looking up old friends from long ago we were searching for your phone number and today I can say I have a broken heart. Shame on me for not keeping the promise I made to you the night you drove me to the airport in SF when I moved to Miami. I promised I would always put myself first, not keep in contact with Gary Souza and always stay in contact with you. I failed you. You and I were secret friends from everyone. We talked for hours and shared many a bottle of wine while listening to music, talking and me usually crying over Gary. You always told me I picked the wrong one but I didn't because we were the best secret friend anyone could ever have. I never told Gary about our talks and cherished our friendship with all my heart. Yes you are my Spirit in the Sky and gone to soon. You were one in a life time friend. I will go to my grave with great memories of our friendship.. God Bless a wonderful, sweet, honest, trustful, understanding friend. I smile when I look at your picture on the Harley. Oh how I remember those days. Forgive me my friend for not staying in contact.

Evey day without you,
Is like summer without sunshine,
and winter without snow.

I wish that I could talk to you,
There's so much I would say,
Life has changed so very much,
since you went away.

I miss the bond between us, 
and miss your kind support,
You're in my mind and in my heart,
and every christmas thought.

I'll always feel you close to me,
and though you're far from sight,
I'll search for you among the stars
that shine on Christmas night. 

 Here's the story about Darrell and my argument of age difference.  We are 21 months apart in age. This use to throw him for a loop when I told him some times we were one year apart and some times we were two years apart. He would say to me, that's impossible, we are either one or two years apart and can't be both. You know Darrell, Mr percised! I would laugh when he tried to make himself younger then he was. After arguing with him about his age, I told me that it was OK to make himself younger, because that made me younger. He always said that age was only a number. He lived by that, because he never acted like an old man that he was. He did his best to be active up to the very end. I try living by his example. I will miss him until the day we meet again.