This week we are going to talk about the down right hard parts of life. Charlie will be forever forty, today would have been his fiftieth birthday. I cannot believe he’s been gone almost ten years and that he would be fifty today. That’s the thing about death, it creeps in when we least expect it and freezes us in time. In three years I will have outlived Charlie, in all time going forward I will love longer than he ever did. His life was cut short, forty is to young. One thing I do know is, he died loving me until his last breath and because of that he will always be apart of me. Love is stronger than death, for it keeps memories alive and allows us to look back at what was with a smile. I miss him dearly, but I know he is proud of me and this little life of mine. I’ll celebrate his birthday with a slice of cake and a quiet smile.