The Broken Chain

We do not need a special day to bring you to our minds.
The days we do not think of you are very hard to find.
Each morning when we awake we know that you are gone.
And no one knows the heartache as we try to carry on.
Our hearts still ache with sadness and secret tears still flow.
What it meant to lose you no one will ever know.
Our thoughts are always with you, your place no one can fill.
In life we loved you dearly; in death we love you still.

There will always to be a heartache, and often a silent tear.
But always a precious memory of the days when you were here.
If tears would make a staircase, and heartaches make a lane,
We'd walk the path to heaven and bring you home again.
We hold you close within our hearts; and there you will remain,
To walk with us throughout our lives until we meet again.
Our family chain is broken now, and nothing seems the same,
But as God calls us one by one, the chain will link again.

~~ author unknown ~~

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Brothers Mike and John and Kristy's Mom and Dad

Kristy at her twin cousins' birthday party

Kristy and her mom at the airport before she left for Italy

Kristy and her cousin Lauren

Kristy, her mom and her cousin Lauren

Kristy and her Uncle Lou and Aunt Karen

Kristy and her grandma

Kristy's Aunt Marianne and Uncle Ed

Kristy's cousins, Jaime and April

Kristy and her godson, Matthew

Kristy and her mom with her twin cousins, Bryan and Daniel

Kristy and her twin cousins, Daniel and Bryan

Kristy's Aunt Lisa and Uncle Don

Kristy and her brothers, John and Michael

Kristy's cousins, Craig and Ann

Kristy's Sweet 16 with her Aunt Susie, Aunt Kathy and Grandpa Haley

Kristy's dogs, Willie and Spanky

Kristy and her cousin Ryan

Kristy and her twin cousins

Kristy at her godson Matthew's Christianing

Kristy and her Aunt Linda and Uncle Terry