Devon Lee Riley

Devon Lee Riley
Love of my Life

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

My Best Friend

For 15 years Devon had a very normal life, he was relatively healthy for 15 years...a few hospitalizations here and there but nothing major.

I am who I am today because of Devon...he softened me and I learned what it was to love another unconditionally.  He was a joy, he was weird, unique, funny, talented, loving, ridiculous, smart, lovely and bizarre all at once.  It's corny, I do realize but Devon really did complete me...it was as though my heart had been waiting for him for 23 years to work as it should.

We were inseparable and I loved every long hippy hair on his rarely brushed head.  He was my son and my best friend and on March 13, 2006 I learned what pain actually was.  See I thought I knew what pain was, childbirth wasn't exactly pleasant, the death of my Grandparents was horrible...I really had no idea what despair was but I was soon to find

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