Monica Martinez-Lagda Tribute

You were on my mind lately, maybe because of Antonella, but I keep thinking about you and how much we all lost when we lost you.

Thinking of you today, Monica. I think of you nearly everyday, but I hear your voice and your laughter today... I was at Target and that was my trigger... not that I need a trigger, sister. Love you and miss you, and am working constantly for an end to this... Kim...

I just really miss you today. What more is there to say, Monica...
love,
preppie - remember that???

R.I.P

As the three-year anniversary of your departure from this earthly existence approaches, you have been even more on my mind, Monica---and I think of you often, my dear, beloved sister-in-law! I spoke of you yesterday to a friend who I had not seen in over twenty years. As we caught up on the milestones and the important people of our lives in the past two decades, I told her about you: bringing unquantifiable joy and love into my brother’s life; being a wonderful daughter to your parents and nurturing sister to your two siblings; offering generously of yourself to the rest of your large family and even greater group of friends; and serving as an example by standing beautiful, strong, and kind in the face of anything---good or bad. That you are missed and loved goes without saying, and I doubt I will ever be able to not feel that heaviness of heart and stop the flow of tears when I speak of my sister-in-law. Always with much love, Jeff.

Thinking about you today, and remembering trying on crazy dresses with you in that huge, doorless Loehmann's dressing room. You talked me into trying on things I would've never otherwise worn, and were honest with what looked like pure hell. We laughed.
Thank you for laughing with me, Monica, and listening to me, and letting me cry, too. I love and miss you, and think about you so often---memories of you and your spirit inspire me!