Today it’s 20 years since you left, since I haven’t seen your translucent blue eyes, since I haven’t heard your laugh and since I haven’t said the word « dad ».
20 years is more than half my life and I remember everything as if it were yesterday. It was so sudden, no one suspected it and believe me, you have left a great emptiness, an emptiness that can never be filled. Some of us will give everything to spend 5 minutes with you to say goodbye, but above all to tell you how much we love you. I could spend hours listing how life without you is not the same and hard, but I would like to remind those who knew you or those who know you through me how unique you were. You were the most incredible person, the one who taught me to be open-minded, tolerant, loving, to always act like a clown, to be a perfectionist, to be curious, passionate and to be fair. My passion for animals, for beautiful things, listening to the same music for hours, BD’s, sitting at the table for hours, the sunflowers, all that was you. I remember our days with Truffet in Paris, our Saturday night sushi, the Spice Girls concerts, The Offspring, waking up to David Bowie’s Thursday’s Child, you were always thinking of others, our laughter, that was our life. You weren’t classic, you were you and you always encouraged me to be me. So thank you dad for being this extraordinary and loving person, for being our ray of sunshine and for giving us so much. Never forget how much I love you, not a day goes by that I don’t think of you, but most importantly you are my hero and not just for one day. To you Dad ❤️