rofl of course his eyes are not open in that fist pic

middle pic is how i remember him most often. he went through a surfer dude phase where all he did was wakeboard or waterski 24/7 and he had the haircut to match

i think he tried to grow a beard that summer and it looked absolutely awful

sometimes i forget how twinzie we were when we were little

which is wild because i was adopted and he was biologically my parents', but we looked more like each other than he looked like either of them

colouring wise, anyway. he absolutely looked like pictures of my dad as a kid

mom did put us in matching outfits for pictures when we were little and we rocked the same bowlcut for a few years (as seen in the christmas pic where he is trying to escape me)

i get really angry sometimes because we had a period of a few years where we didn't speak, and we'd just started getting back into each other's lives before he died

i keep up with a lot of his friends, still, and i see them like. getting married and having kids, and it's hard because he'd be such a great uncle. or a dad.

but i'm also proud of them and i know mike would have been proud of them, too

i'll probably light a candle and talk to him that way, later

at the service, my godfather gave me a candle for that purpose, and i've sort of carried that on since then

it's a nice idea

it just also sucks that it's on a holiday

which it was, too. we got the news while we were making father's day dinner, so that's -- ass

since father's day moves around and then there are two days around the same time that are hard

Thinking of you today. So sorry for your loss.

thank you, lovely i appreciate the support and the thoughts

Bless you. I’m so sorry. My brother died before I was born so I never got to know him but I’ve always wondered what he was like.

I know how you guys feel too. A lot of my male relatives died when I was younger or before I was born, so I never got to meet them, and it's been 9 years since my dad has passed too. It's a sucky weight on your chest that doesn't exactly go away no matter how many breaths you take.

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