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LAFFIE

February 6, 2018

WAS ORN NOV 1, 1968 TO ROBERT E. LOVE AND JANICE L MORROW. LAFFIE.. NOT LONG AFTER HE WAS BORN HE GOT A SISTER NAME URSULA. AFTER HIS SISTER WAS BORN THEY ENDED UP GETTING LEFT WITH THEIR AUNT ETTA. THEN ETTA'S MOTHER GERALDINE GOT WIND & TOOK THE TWO IN TO RAISE TIL LAFFIE WAS 11 & URSULA WAS 10. LAFFIE SUFFERRED WITH REALLY BAD ASTHMA SO HE WAS HOSPITALIZED A LOT IN HIS CHILDHOOD. HIS GRANDMOTHER GOT HIM INTO ASTHMA CAMPS TO ALLOW HIM TO BE AROUND OTHERS WITH THE SAME CONDITION WHERE THEY ALL LEARNED HOW TO COPE WITH THEIR LUNG DISEASE. DOCTOR SAID HE MAY GROW OUT OF IT BUT HE NEVER DID. WHILE GROWING UP LAFFIE WAS IN TO COMICS ANND MARVEL COMICS & MOSTLY ALL CARTOON CHARACTERS AND IN SPARE TIME HE'D DRAW THEM ALL PERFECTLY. HE WAS A YOUNG ARTIST. THAT HIS TEACHERS ADORED. HE WAS A STRAIGHT A STUDENT. EVEN GOT PUT UP A GRADE. HAD THE CHANCE TO BE PUT UP ANOTHER GRADE BUT HIS GRANDMOTHER THOUGHT IT BEE BEST IF HE WERE AROUND HIS OWN AGE. SO HE STAYED A YEAR UP ONLY. HIS GRANDMOTHER WAS GETTING OLD SO SHE GAVE THE TWO UP AFTER A MAJOR FAMILY TRAGEDY. AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 11 THEY WENT TO FOSTER CARE SO HE AND HIS SISTER WERE IN A COUPLE FOSTER HOMES TOGETHER THEN THEY GOT SEPARATED WHEN HE WAS 12. THE TWO WOULD REUNITE WHEN HE WAS 18. LAFFIE HAD VARIOUS JOBS THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. BUT HE WANTED HIS OWN TATTOO PARLOR BECAUSE HE LOVED DRAWING ON PEOPLE. HIS ART WAS COMING BACK OUT. HE MET A GIRL NAMED JACKIE. THE TWO HAD TWO VERY HANDSOME & VERY SMART BOYS NAMED LAFAYETTE AND ALEXANDER. LAFFIE WAS A PROUD DAD. BUT WHEN HIS BOYS WERE STILL KINDA YOUNG OUT OF NO WHERE HIS BODY BEGAN TO GET NUMB ON 1 SIDE. FIRST JUST HIS HAND. THEN HIS LEGS THEN HE WAS BED RIDDEN WITH MULTIPLE SCHLOROSIS. , MS, TERRIBLE DISEASE. HAVING MS & ASTHMA IS A DEATH WISH WAITING TO HAPPEN. THOSE TWO TOGETHER ARE EXTRA BAD, SO THE LIFE AS HE KNEW IT WAS NO MORE. HE THEN WAS PLACED IN A NURSING HOME AND IT REALLY WENT DOWN HILL. BUT THROUGH IT ALL HIS SPIRITS WERE HIGH. HE KEPT MAKING JOKES AND LAUGHING TIL ONE DAY ON DEC 6 2010 HIS SUFFERING WAS OVER. SURROUND BY HIS LOVED ONES. 
LAFFIE I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU.. YOU WERE THE BEST BROTHER ANY ONE COULD EVER HAVE. I LOVE & MISS YOU SO MUCH... WISH YOU WERE STILL HERE.. U.R.LOVE