The next day, on Saturday, we checked out at 8am, and headed right into the city. The weather was unseasonably warm for NJ/NY in January, with the temps hitting the high 60s, which followed the prior days being in the 30s and 40s. It was a perfect day to show NYC to Sveta, as there was no traffic […]
On Wednesday, we arrived in New Jersey and got back to Fran and Joel’s apartment, all of us exhausted. We were hungry though and made it over to Cafe Italiano just up the road, where David, Donna, and Brad met up with us for dinner. It was obviously hard to see people now in person but it […]
Larry died on Tuesday morning, Jan 7, 2020, at 1:20am. Monday, we were basically waiting on him to finally surrender. Sveta came over, and we all started listening to the many favorite tunes of Larry’s while waiting, which helped make the mood a bit more celebratory than the dread it had been when it was silent or the […]
Happy New Year, right? It’s obvious this is the end stretch. Larry is barely coherent, and when he is awake (which is when we get him up to go to the bathroom or for meals), he gets frustrated at the fact that he can’t be independent. So it’s good I guess that he does feel those emotions, and […]
The end of this fucking year and decade. The decade itself was probably my personal best decade ever as I spent it living with and loving Larry, the one I always dreamed of having in my life. But it also is the decade in which I was on the path of losing him. 2020 may be when he […]