Manuel Miguel Carrasco

To our beautiful father,
How do we sum up all of our love for you in one letter? Words or tears cannot describe or show how blessed we are to have you as a father. We are so grateful for the memories, love, laughter, and the pranks. You made our lives better by always being the most proud, affectionate, and present person. There was not a single day where we didn't laugh or smile and we have you thank for that.
I could sit here for hours and talk about my father how great of a man he is, how kind he is, how friendly he is but most of all how loving he is, everything he did was for his family because if there's one thing we all know is that he loved his girls, To me Manuel was My father, my friend and my biggest supporter, I had met him when I was only 3 years old, in my opinion I was the luckiest child to have gotten so lucky that my mother was able to find a wonderful man like him to love us, and that's what he did best, Manuel has always showed me love, the love of a father is very beautiful and special and I am so thankful that he was able to give me that for so many years, remembering that I met him at 3 and now that I am 20 I am grateful for the woman that I am to become because of him. I will always be thankful for him and the life he gave my family, I am thankful for getting the chance to be his daughter and I am so glad that I got to take care of you. You took care of me my whole life and for that I will always be thankful. Nothing can even begin to explain how much I miss you but being able to know you and to have you as my father completes me and I will forever be so grateful for how much you loved my mom, thank for loving and always taking care of my mom, I will do that now along with you by our side. Thank you to my beautiful father for always being there. I will forever love and miss you.
Hey Papi, I miss you. I really have no idea what to do without you. You were the first love of my life, and you've become the biggest loss of it. You were the strongest, wisest, funniest, smartest, and most handsome man I knew. I need you, papi. A daughter will always need her father, I just can't fathom being here without you. I wish you didn't leave me so soon but I understand, at least I'm trying to. I hope to be at least half of the person you were. Everyone that meets me for the first time seems to know everything about me and all I'm up to. Why? Because you took every opportunity to show me off and guess what papi? I did the same. I made sure everyone knew I was a daddy's girl and that you were my best friend. And still are because you better believe I'm visiting you all the time and talking like there's no tomorrow. I remember, one field trip, we went to see a dance show and my friends were all calling me to sit next to them and you saw me ignore them. You said, "baby, go" and instead I just looked at them and said "No, I want to sit with my dad." I was and will always be so happy that you got to be my dad. Please, don't stop now that you're in heaven because God knows I need you. I love you, my best friend.