Happy Birthday, love!!

You'd turn 41.

I picked up Nen from his summer camp at 3 p.m. and told him about your birthday.
- Today is somebody's birthday?, I said.
- Whose?
- Somebody we love but can't congratulate...
- Who?
- Somebody we love but miss because we can't have him...
- Daddy?
- Yes. Today is daddy's birthday.
- We send him a birthday wish anyway.

A few hours later, at bed time I told him about how we used to celebrate your birthday: the evite, the barbeques, etc. I even showed him pictures of your last two birthdays, the ones when he was around.

Ah... how easy life was with you in it.
With love,

María & Nen