Michael A. DeCarlo

Dear Daddy,

This is the last day the newspaper will have your guest book open. I will communicate with you through my (spiritual) heart after today. If you saw how many typing mistakes I make, you would recommend the heart method anyway. ;-)

I think I'm beginning to accept "my new reality" but I promise to honor your memory. We have to figure out a way to manage the scholarship we set up in your name. I think Steven came up with the idea but I think it is a...

Dear Daddy,

I received a lovely letter from Rosebelle Fallis yesterday. I had written to her after finding an envelope with her address on it in your desk. I figured you saved it for a reason. Here is her letter:

Dear Suzanne,

I appreciate your letting me know of the recent passing of your Dad. The news saddened me and I offer my deepest sympathy.

Your Dad played a major role in dedicating the Middle School Information Center in...

Dear Daddy,

Until I make it back to New Jersey, this is as close as I can get to visiting your grave. I don't think your grave stone has been set in place though. Chris picked it out. It sounds simple and reverent. From what he tells me, you would find it appropriate and tasteful. How I wish choosing your gravestone were a task many years in the future.

We are house-sitting the dog of Nathan Bachman while his family is holding his funeral in Missouri. Blue is a...

Daddy,

I'm the only one who found your guest book in cyberspace. Does cyberspace continue beyond our own dimensions? If so, can you read this?

Arielle, Paul, and I think about you daily. Arielle said a prayer for you at the highest Catholic church she visited in Peru and at a memorial service for one of her schoolmates. I told her you were busy getting Nathan Bachman into Celestial U. He's a fantastic drummer and you now know C. U. (See you...) has a great...

Daddy,

Its been 4 weeks and I miss you more than ever. I console myself by realizing you finally have the understanding both of us sought in our different ways. I promise to keep your memory alive in my heart and within all my families.

Love,

Suzanne