I remeber when Katie first called me. I felt like one of those comic book frames where the words are hung in a bubble above me and yet couldn't grasp the concept. It hit me a week later when my husband tried to give me the "bigger piece of chicken" (long story), and it all came out. I'm a strong Christian women and at that moment I was enraged at God for taking her. I knew in my head that there was a reason, but my heart was not so convinced.

It's been a year later and I can now recall memories I had long forgotten and the smile it puts on my face. You know it's funny that my husband will say "Christy phrases". He loves to mangle cliches'!! Those are the moments I feel her with me the most.

I regret not visiting more when she was with us and I have to live with that. But even with the miles between us, I always felt that nothing had changed between us. So now, even now, I feel her close to my heart and I hope to see her again.