August 12, 2014

Thank you for being a part of my life growing up.

Thank you for all the times my family could put aside their differences and watch Aladdin or Jumanji for the millionth time.

Thank you for your characters, who were so conflicted and real and human, and who helped me understand complex ideas like loss and despair long before I actually experienced them in real-life.

Thank for you being my childhood friend, even though you never knew it.

Thank you for giving hope to so many of us in the face of your own inner demons.

Thank you for making us smile even when you felt like you couldn't.

Thank you for bringing people together, even in your death, to laugh and cry and feel together.

Thank you for the memories, wonderful and bittersweet as they may be.

I'll never forget you.

xox

yr girl Shaner