It was four years ago today, March 13, 2020 that I texted with my four siblings. I shared a photo of a t-shirt I had purchased for all of us. It was a shirt with a tree and a cardinal on each side of the tree. At the bottom left of the tree it said Mom 2012 and on the right it said Dad 2019; the year that they passed away. I told them via text that I had purchased a shirt for each of them and I wanted to take a photo together with the shirt on. We always took photos together. Well, he never got the chance to hold or wear that shirt. I would never have imagined that one month and two days later he would be brutally taken away from us and that he would join my parents.

This time of year is very hard for so many of us. So much was stolen from us. I’m sorry, my brother, that I couldn’t be there for you. I love you. Your sis.