Mom always said I was the greatest love of her life, so who better to spend the day with than me. Crazy how blissfully unaware we were of the impending doom. Like I said, we rarely see those moments coming. Devastation like that, the sort that tips your world on its axis and changes who you are on a fundamental level, gives no warning. Those particular ruinations like to blindside you. I would have never imagined that three short months after we’d taken this picture everything would change. Who could possibly anticipate something like that?

