Three Christmases (Merry Christmas 2025, Lili)

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Three Christmases (Merry Christmas 2025, Lili)

December 25, 2025 by Tony Del Vecchio

Dear Lili,

How strange and sad it is that it’s been 22 years since we spent Christmas together. It was always such a special time for us, filled with love and happiness.

I keep reaching out to you, hoping that someday you’ll come across this blog — if you haven’t already — and seek to rediscover who you are, who you were, before others taught you how to feel. I console myself as best I can with the knowledge that the bond we shared as father and daughter was real. I was the first man in your life. You were the best thing that ever happened to me, the one who taught me the meaning of unconditional love. You must know that I would have done anything for you. Still would.

Anyway, I know that the only way we could ever be reunited is if that is what you wish. I hope it comes to pass.

Until then, here are some pictures of Christmases Past, of happy time I spent with you.

You are always in my heart. Always have been. Always will be.

Your Dad

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CHRISTMAS 1998 (Our first Christmas together at Nonnie and Poppies in Florida)

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CHRISTMAS 2002 (We spent Christmas alone this year as your mother was traveling in New York. But we went to a nice Christmas party at one of my student’s home, and later had Christmas at Higashi-Nakano.)