All of my memories of Dan just make me laugh. He was always so funny and silly! I remember one time in sixth grade--We were eating lunch and I had a run in my nylons which were WAY too dark for me to begin with. Dan was sitting across from me at the "boys table" and was teasing me about the run. Finally I got so mad at his persistance that I jumped up, and in a raging fury ripped my nylons right off of my leg, leaving one leg much, much whiter than the other. This act struck Dan as absolutely hilarious, and he started laughing so hard that he fell out of his seat on to the ground. It WAS hilarious now that I look back on it, but BOY was I mad at the time! Most of the things I remember about Dan are the little things; like the way he always seemed to save the game during gym class when we played trench or pinguard, or how straight his teeth were, or that old Dolphins jacket he used to wear. I remember his laugh and the way he used to make everybody else laugh too. That's why it was such a shock to lose him this way. But "we can cry with hope; we can say goodbye with hope. 'Cause we know our goodbye is not the end, oh there's a place where we'll see his face again." We miss you and love you Dan, but we're so happy that you don't have to be in any more pain now, and that you're better off. For that, we are willing to make the sacrifice of being separated from your earthly body, knowing that the memories we have of you will forever live inside of all of us whose lives you have been a part of.
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