EVERY WINTER REMINDS ME OF YOU, WE LOVED WINTER, WHEN WE WERE SMALL AND WINTER CAME, WE WOULD POOR WATER ON THE BACK YARD STEPS AND WAIT FOR IT TO FREEZE AND THEN MAKE A SLIDE, IT WAS SO MUCH FUN, YOU ALWAYS PUT ME FIRST, NO MATTER WHAT, AND THEN WHEN THE BLIZZARD HIT IN 78 WE GRABBED OUT SHOVELS AND OFF WE WENT, WE MADE SO MUCH MONEY AND EVERY TIME WE WOULD SHOVEL A DRIVE AND THE PERSON WOULD PAY YOU, YOU SPLIT IT EVENLY, WE SPENT THE WHOLE DAY MAKEN MONEY. WE ALWAYS WENT TO THE WEST SIDE CENTER EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SKATED, WE WENT ALMOST EVERY DAY PLAYING BASKETBALL, THE RAILROAD TRACKS BECAME OURS, WE WOULD HITCH A RIDE ON THE TRAIN, GO TO TOWN, WALK AROUND CAMPUS,  GO TO THE LIBRARY AND WATCH MOVIES, AND CATCH THE TRAIN BACK HOME, WE WOULD GO FISHING AT TWIN LAKES ALOT, AND WHEN I LEARNT TO SWIM WE WOULD GO SWIMMING IN ALL THE FLOODED AREA UP BY VALHALLA, WE ALSO WOULD WALK THE TRACKS WITH GRANNY TO THE COMMENTARY AND EACH OF US WOULD HAVE A GINNY SACK AND WE WOULD FILL THEM ALL UP WITH YELLER APPLES, OH GRANNY WOULD WHIP UP APPLE COBBLER, AND PIES, I REMEMBER ONE HALLOWEEN WE HAD CAME BACK HOME FROM WALKING, 7TH , 6TH ,5TH,AND OUR RD 8TH STREET TRICK OR TREATING, AND WE GOT HOME AND YOU BIT INTO AN APPLE AND NEXT THING I SEEN WAS YOUR LIP SPLIT OPEN AND GRANNY TOOK THE APPLE AND PULLED A RAISER BLADE OUT, PEOPLE WERE SO EVIL,FROM THERE ON WE WOULD THROW THE APPLES DOWN THE ROAD, WE NEVER KEPT THEM FROM THERE ON. OH HOW I COULD GO ON, BUT FOR NOW ILL END IT, AND CONTINUE LATER, I WANT THE PEOPLE TO KNOW YOU WERE NOT THE BAD KID THEY ASSUMED YOU TO BE, ONE MORE THING, I SEEN A MAN THAT WAS ROUGH, WEAK, TURN INTO THIS MAN OF CAREING, LOVEING, I WITNESSED GOD CHANGE YOU, WE USE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT GODS PLAN WAS FOR YOU, AND WHAT YOUR PURPOSE WAS, WHAT DID GOD HAVE INSTORE FOR YOU, WELL AFTER YOU PASSED, I THOUGHT ON ALOT OF THE CONVERSATION, AND IT WAS ME, STAYING WITH YOU AND CAREING FOR YOU N  YOUR NEEDS, I REALISED I AM NOT WEAK, AND I WATCHED YOUR STRENGTH  HOW STRONG YOU BECAME , AND I REALIZED I AM STRONG, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, AND TODAT YOU WENT TO BE WITH THE LORD  FEB.22ND , 6:49 AM , THAT DAY CHANGED MY LIFE FOR EVER.. BUT ONE THING ILL HOLD FOREVER IS, WHEN I GOT TO MOMS, I INSTANTLY TOOK YOUR HAND AND YOU PULLED ME IN CLOSE, AND AT THAT MOMENT, I FELT YOUR FEAR GO THROUGH ME, AND I PRAYED, AND I SANG AMAZING GRACE IN A WHISPER TO YOU, AND THEN, AS I NELT DOWN TO KISS YOU ONE MORE TIME, YOU SAID BYE TO ME, NOT ANYONE ELSE AS THEY ARE SAYING BUT IT DOESNT MATTER I KNEW IN MY HEART AND I THANKED GOD BECAUSE IT WAS ONLY A BYE AND NOT A GOOD BYE, I MADE A PROMISE TO YOU THAT I WOULD SEE YOU IN HEAVEN, AND YOU TURNED AND SAID TO ME,,---I BETTER SEE YOU IN HEAVEN---GOD BLESS---ANNIE-