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Ten Years
By Margot | March 12, 2020
Sam has been gone ten years today. We’ve spent the morning looking at videos of him and laughing through tears. He sure loved his people and his brothers. I read through this site some and smiled at descriptions of Sam making a basket in PeeWee basketball, raising his arms up and twirling for the crowd with a big smile on his face. When I wonder who he would have grown into, I decide to go with his six and seven year-old career plan for himself. He always said he’d be in the NFL as a quarterback, then retire and play in the NBA for five years and end his career in major league baseball. We miss his smile and his laugh and his sense of humor. I’m also amazed when I read back through entries and see how much fun and joy he was able to find in the smallest things even if it was an afternoon in the hospital playing volleyball with a blown up sterile glove waiting for a blood draw. I wish he were here to know how amazing his brothers are and drive with them for breakfast at Konitos. Reading through old entries, it’s nice to remember how much he enjoyed them both while he was here. We miss you Sammo, so much. Can’t believe it’s been a decade without you.
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March 12th, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Big Sam.
Every day he is with me. Such courage.
I’m lucky to have known Sam. Such a smile.
I keep his wry sense of humor close and try to mimic his infectious smile.
Jesus. Ten years.
Wow.