37 years ago today was the last time I ever saw you, when I peeked out those blinds and saw you drive off with dad that early morning to meet with Betty Witherspoon, Nick Diaz, his sister, Ana Ayala and her family;
37 years ago today was the last time I ever heard your voice talking to mom in the kitchen before you left with dad;
37 years ago today was the last time I ever had my brother to laugh with, to play with, to fight over Snicker's candy bars with;
37 years ago today was the last time I was a sibling, left to be an only child;
37 years ago today was the last time I got to love my brother with that last look of him through those blinds;
For these past 37 years, it's as if mom and I have been living a surreal dream- one we are wanting to wake up from- one we are no longer wanting to part of- one that we want to end;
For God's sake and mom's please just pick up the phone and call her- she is waiting for you to call her- she's actually expecting it- she will be fine believe me- she has so much faith in God that you will return to her and hopefully with a handful of grandkids that she so desperately wants to see;
37 years ago today began the story of what is yours, mine, mom's, our uncles and aunts and our cousins;
37 years ago today- June 29th, 1975, was the saddest day for all of us.
God bless you Junior, wherever you may be and I just hope that for these past 37 years you have not forgotten who your family is, where you came from and that we expect you home very, very soon.
37 years is a long time ago, but it's as if it were just this morning, when I peeked out my blinds here at home and I saw you and dad driving out from our little driveway at our little home on Woodlawn street. That image will forever be engraved in my mind.
37 years ago today was the last day I ever got to see your big, beautiful eyes, so sleepy that I wondered why you had to go on that trip; I wondered why you didn't just come back inside and go to sleep because it was so early in the morning;
37 years ago today you could have seen me at my 1st tennis lesson; you could have been with the whole family and Tio Kiko's BBQ................
