Missing Dave Vecella

Anybody who wants to know who Dave Vecella was or why I'm posting this can click on the Dave Vecella tag to see my previous posts about him. Strange that his birthday ends up being the Day of the Dead. Perhaps this is a case where it's preferable to think of it as All Souls Day. His brother just posted this message to the memorial website:

I write with a heavy heart, as today is Dave’s birthday. He would have turned 45 today. It still seems so unfair that he is not here with us.

I would have sent Dave a birthday email greeting first thing this morning, as I always did on November 2nd; and he would have sent me a wonderful reply, filling me in on everything going on with Teri and Ryan, and Beyond the Reef, and asking all about me, Pam and the kids. I would tease him that he wasn’t getting any younger, and he would remind me that I was still older than him, and always would be. We’d share some laughs, a few corny jokes, and we would always, ALWAYS, end by saying how much we loved each other. And now I’m crying, and literally have tears streaming down my face, because I miss you SO, SO MUCH, Dave. I still think about you EVERY SINGLE DAY, and wish you were here so I could tell you, again, how much I love you. But you already know that, don’t you?

Happy birthday, ‘lil bro. I love you.

Frank