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Fallingpants
November 1, 2009

Cherish (Every Moment)

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This is Travis (my brother in law) who we took in so he could finish high school. This is when we went to look for a ceremony location, we didnt find it at that time, but i got this amazing picture of him.

I wrote a letter to him, and stuck it behind the photo. I'm going to put it here cause i know i'll forget what i wrote eventually. It's long you dont have to read it:
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October Thirty-One, Two Thousand and Nine
Travis

I thought the hard part was going to be letting you into our lives and adjusting. It was, we had very many bad times, and a lot of good. Its hard to remember which there was more of though. I remember being hard on you, sometimes not hard enough, and often a little too hard. There was never a balance between the two. We were inexperienced in raising a child, especially helping a teenager through the process of becoming an adult. Could you blame us? We hadn’t had kids of our own yet.

While you were with us, Jason and I often thought “we will NEVER have kids of our own” it was too hard at times. We didn’t think we’d make it through. I’m not going to lie, we were anxious for you to leave and to have a place to ourselves again. Now that you’re gone, it’s harder than I thought. Again, I thought the hardest part was going to be letting you in, but now I realize it’s letting you go. A part of my life is missing.

When you came with us, we were unsure of who you were becoming, and now that you’re gone we know it’s who you were always meant to be. We like to take a little credit, we pushed and pushed and found what was underneath the stubborn teenager and it is incredible, it’s what your mother always knew you’d be, but everyone had little faith it’d come to be.

Now that you’re gone, we realize that we want kids even more. You didn’t stray us from the path of having a child, you reinforced our capability of fathering and mothering our own. We didn’t do it for very long, but the time we did we put in all of our heart and soul, as well as our strength and support. We invested so much into you, a kid that was not ours, just hoping you’d turn out better than the path you were taking. We will eternally be grateful for the time spent with you, and will always love you not only as a brother, but as our first chance at being a parent.

We made mistakes like all parents do, and I hope one day you can look past all the pressure we put on you and see what we were trying to do. Everything we did in the time you were here was for you.

It’s so hard letting go now.

We will never stop loving or supporting you.


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