Well here we are - it has now been 8 long years since I lost you from this world and I STILL MISS YOU SO VERY MUCH! How I wish we could be together in the here and now. Our talents, skill, joy for life, sense of humor, faith and perspective on life meshed so very well - we were the perfect complement to each other. That's what makes it so hard living without you. It's like being a one-legged person - I'm just off-balance without you, even though I adapt as I can each day in order to push on. I try every day to take the lessons you taught me and the resolve you would want me to have and take forward in order to, in your words, "live my life and be happy, knowing that we will be together again someday." I cling to that gift from you and anticipate our reunion with everything in me, and hope you would be proud of me as I am of you and your legacy. I love keeping in touch with your family, as they are, in a way, your gifts to the future. So in marking another passing year, just know I am still here holding you in my heart until we meet again. I love you. Your "Blondie".

My sweet, handsome, strong, gentle, generous husband - I miss you so much today on what would have been your 83rd birthday. We always had fun on your birthday as any and every day we ever spent together. That last birthday was in the nursing home 4 days before I lost you and we enjoyed the company of many members of your wonderful family. I remember how much you enjoyed a fresh apple that one of your daughters brought even though there was lots of cake and ice cream and stuff like that all around. After spending 91 nights sleeping in that recliner next to your bed, I would have gladly spent each night of these last 8 years right there by your side. But it was not to be. But I am in the home we both loved so much and continue to persevere and remember the many, many happy times we spent here. I look forward to seeing you again one day on the glorious other side. Be free and in the wind my darling, I LOVE YOU! <3

Ronnie my sweetie, I can't believe it's been THREE long, very long, years since your passing to the other side. I miss you more than words can express. It has not gotten any easier. I absolutely can not wait to see you again. I feel you are near very often, but long to reach out and touch you again. Thank you for everything you have given me and done for me and all you were and still are for me. Your "Blondie" <3.

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Ron and I met at the perfect time in both our lives. We had so much fun together no matter what we were doing. We had so many good times, inside jokes, crazy adventures, and comfy, cozy, cuddly times. He always could make me laugh. I can't imagine sharing those years with anyone else. He told me to live my life and be happy and that he would see me again later on. I believe him.