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Birthday

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Today would have been Kris’s 34th Birthday.  His birthday was usually quite the event. We’d do a birthday dinner with his family, another dinner with my family where my mom made him tater tot casserole, go to Lucky 13 for pizza and beers with our friends, and then just Kris and I would go out for a fancy, romantic, expensive dinner.

Over the years Kris and I had cut back on gifts – meaning we decided to spend our money on traveling and rafting.  But Kris did buy himself an Aire Wave Destroyer last year. It was kind of like a birthday present to himself.  And I did get him a pair of SmartWool underwear, and Stanley shot glasses.  I had Kris buried in that pair of underwear.… 

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Memorial

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Kris’s funeral was on Friday, March 16th, 2018.  Today, April 16th, 2018, is one month since his memorial service.  I want to share what I said at Kris’s service.  It’s not exactly word for word what I said.  I’ve edited, added, and clarified some things.

This was at a wedding in July 2014.

I knew I wanted to speak at the service.  I started thinking about it as soon as I found out Kris’s body was being transported back to the country, and we could actually start planning the funeral.  But I didn’t really tell anyone I was going speak, just in case I lost my nerve.  One night I couldn’t sleep because all I was thinking about was what I wanted to say at the memorial service.  So I knew I needed to speak.  Kris would have done it for me.  It was just a matter of actually getting up in front of an unknown number of people, knowing I would be a wreck anyway. I wrote everything out that I wanted to say twice. … 

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