tony-and-liliana-delvecchio.com

Lili’s 1st Birthday

Dear Lili,

So hard to believe that it was 25 years ago today that you came into this world and changed my life forever. My only wish today is that I could say happy birthday to you face to face. 

You’ll never know, perhaps, what effect the loss of my precious daughter had on me. I think of you every day, and on this day especially, I cry those tears that never end. You will always be a part of me, and until the day that I leave this Earth, I pray every day that someday, somehow, you will come to the realization that I am not the man you have been led to believe I am, and that I am  instead the man you once loved evey bit as much as I loved you then, and still love now without abatement.

Until then, “Dum spiro spreo”.

You are always in my heart.

Love, 

Daddy