Chris LaFlame

Tomorrow is your birthday, Sweetheart. I miss you and speak your sweet name so many times each day. Your friends and family have taken good care of me. I'll see you soon.

Chris contacted me online a few years ago, we chatted about Nascar and moving to NC and the good old days in Nashua. I lived a few doors away on Cheyenne Drive in Nashua, he had me over to listen to the new Rush album Permanent Waves and got me hooked; I see from the pictures he was still into all our music. And Star Wars! I remember science project in Mr. Michaud's physics class, Chris won 1st place with his entry complete with movie soundtrack about how many Newtons it would take to launch...

Spreading Chris's ashes at Bristol Speedway, his favorite track.

I'm at work, Sweetheart. I like it here. I actually love it here. I miss Kevin the House, but I have Kevin, Jr., and a bunch of friends. Did you see when we put your ashes at Bristol? They opened up the track and drove me onto the infield and we scattered a few of your ashes at pit box 10. I have a lot of friends here, mostly from work, which is why I love it so much. It's hard. It's the hardest job I ever had, but you would be proud of me because I stayed even when it was hard and when I was...