21

I can't say any better what Gabby wrote...
raise your glasses today....and say a little toast for Al if you would....

Today is October 14, 2006.
It would've been Alex's 21 birthday.
21.
Wow.
I remember feeling like life was just beginning at 21.
How much was left to do, left to find, left to become.
And it hurts so much to know that she won't ever know those feelings.
Her life stopped
At 20.
20. When there should be so much left ahead.

Today we would've celebrated.
She would've gone shopping
(her favorite thing)
And eaten a ridiculously fabulous dessert somewhere.
Today we should have done those things.
And we can't.
Her life was more fleeting than I ever would've guessed.
And because of that... we are never going to give up the fight.
We love you, Alex.

ee cummings, i carry your heart with me:

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)