Hello my friends, it has been a good while since I have been active here on DA, I wanted to say that I don't know how active I will be on here for quite a while. My father just passed away on the 1st of April, I wish it were a cruel April fool's joke but unfortunately it's not. My father had just turned 53 on the 31st of March too.....We think it was an arterial bleed so there was nothing we could do for him, he bleed out in front of me. I'm going to be 26 on the 4th of May and planning a funeral for my father has been taxing and emotionally draining. I never thought I would have to bury my father this early in my life; We were very close he was my rock through all that my mother has put me through. I'm not sure how I am going to make it without him, he was my best friend and I'll miss him terribly. I don't believe I ever really spoke of my father here on DA, I know I've ranted about my mother tons of times. I'm actually very lucky that my mother was home for Easter, she was actually supposed to leave on the second. I'm going to put a picture of my father and me up here on DA, it's a decently old picture from 2007, and I'm not really sure why I'm putting it here. Maybe I want to show how proud I was of my Dad, and how much he meant to me. We are not the two prettiest peaches but oh well, I miss him more and more as I sit here typing about him. Me and my Dad spent a lot of time together and we enjoyed going to movies a lot, he was the only one in my family that openly accepted me and my boyfriend, he supported me in everything, in my decision to join the army and follow in his footsteps. He was liked by everyone who met him and he always went with the flow of things and never let anything bother him. All I can tell you is if there is a parent that you love that you haven't spoke with in a while, call them or go see them you never know when it will be too late to tell them how much you care.