Today is your birthday daddy, and it's been kind of hard. I went to my internship, glued a smile on my face, and made myself get through the day. Now I'm sitting in my dorm room, and I can't help but miss you. And now so much has come to the surface, once again life has taken a 180. Daddy, I have so many questions and I have so many things I need to know, but you are the only one who could truly answer them, and you are the one who isn't here. Everyone said that death would bring out the…

My dad was diagnosed just a week after my 21st birthday and just three days before i was scheduled to move back to for my senior year of college that was 2 hours away from home. I was more than ready to take a semester off to help around the house and with my father. We were told that it was stage 4 lung cancer, that was highly aggressive and had already metastasized. We were told he would have maybe 2 years but that it was unbeatable. That entire weekend we argued back and forth but my…