10). My final few dedications.....

My final few dedications.....

Thank you Christine for being such a great friend since we were 10 and still loving me after I smashed your brand new bike. We never fight, we get along, you always know when I need you the most. Your life has been just as crazy and confusing as mine, and think that's why we are the bestest of friends. I'm so sorry you lost your Mom, Dad, Brother other Brother and Sister.. Seeing your heart hurt makes my heart hurt too. I'm so glad we have eachother.... I could not have made it without you girlfriend....... Ever! You are my best friend for life and beyond.... You my sweet girlfriend know me even better than my Husband..... We go wayyyyyyyyyyy back.... You are a gift to me each and every minute of everyday. I feel like the luckiest person alive knowing what a great friend you have been to me. You deserve a Great Friend Award!!!! No doubt in my mind...

Thank you Cyndi for singing with me in the NBD bank parking lot. I love music and singing to this day.

Thank you Tom for having the juciest plum tree in your front yard that I can still taste to this day if I really think about it.

Thank you Tom, Chris and Karen and Marge..... You were my 2nd family.... I still need to talk to your Mom to figure all that out.. Little pieces of the puzzle are coming together.

Thank you Angelo for being my first husband at 5 years old

Thank you Craig for loving me the way you did in High School. I'll never forget the dinners, the dances, the drive in and the way we fogged up the glass..... LOL Thank you for still being my friend after all these years. Thank you the most for introducing me to my sweet wonderful Husband Stephen!

Thank you Patty for staying strong when you were in Baghdad during Desert Storm and putting that money in those rolled up magic markers to get out of there.. I'm so glad I got to spend some time with you in June out in Phoenix. I love that your now Muslim. Hearing your stories makes me totally understand.

Thank you Dr. Diaz for helping me walk again after those long 5 years...

Thank you Dr. Beer for helping me with my friggin scar tissue....

Thank you Dr. Bachman for hypnotizing me for the Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome from our tent being struck by lightning and the loss of my sister. I don't cry as much anymore! Thank you for making me paint you a picture. I hope you still have it. I'll never forget you telling me... IT'S NOT WHAT YOU CAN'T DO- IT'S WHAT YOU CAN DO!

Thank you Genette for being the best friend ever and even though you lived in Clarkston and had no phone you would hear me scream, I need my girlfriend and then you would show up in your beat up car and I'd look out my kitchen window and there you were.. Still amazes me to this day and I'd give anything to have you do that again.. Rest in Peace my dear sweet Genette.
... Also ....... Thank you for naming your daughter Katherine after me...... I feel honored beyond belief!
I will always have a part of you girlfriend..... I named my daughter Chellsea Genette..... That will last a lifetime ya know!

Thank you Eric the complete stranger that just pushed me to the point of where this book is finally going to come out of me........... I'm amazed how a stranger could have done that to me.. Are you a Guardian Angel?

Thank You Larry........ My Sweet Father in Law...... Those days at my kitchen table when I was taking care of my Mom with Cancer and my Brother with Kidney Failure and we would have jeager bombs and you would tell me all your stories........ no one will ever understand how I really needed those afternoons.... I'd give anything to have you here to bring you a bowl of my home made soup, or make you that Chili you always had me make for you Sad sacks group every year, and thank you so much for being my 87 year old best friend. Rest in Peace Grandpa Wilson I miss you more than anyone will ever know. Looking out my kitchen window and not seeing you walk by in your coveralls...... ohhhhhh I hate that I can't see you one more time! I'd hug you so tight and tell you what a great Father in Law you were. Even if I was still in my jammies at 3 in the afternoon, it did not matter.... All those years when you stopped in to check on me and when I was sound asleep in the side room because I could not make it up the stairs to my bed and you woke me up by your hands in my hair and your lips on mine... just giving me a kiss to say I love you..... I'll never in a million years forget that. That very moment it made me realize how and why my Mother in law Marie fell in love with you. She was a very Lucky lady. I miss you both so much. I can still taste her home made applesauce and see her looking out the little window making sure I had winter hats on the kids in the winter time. She was Mom to your kids and mine....... No wonder Chellsea wants me to live next door to her. She saw how it was for me...... Lovely I might add!!!

Thank you Deb and Dean and Sheri and Beth for always letting me come stay with you when I needed to get out of freezing cold Michigan! I loved N.Y.C, I loved the Bahamas, I loved the Cruise, I loved Jamaica, I loved meeting Jay and Steve our bitches from Florida..... I loved just having homes away from home..... I could never re-pay you for your kindness...

Thank you waitress at Capitol Coney Island for finding my diamond and giving it back to me after so many months. You could have had the prettiest diamond ring ever! You make me know there are good people out there!

Thank you........ Ray............. Ray....... You my Love..... are just the sweetest man alive besides my husband! No words can describe!!!! When I needed anything..... You were always there all the way from Houston!

so many thank you's...................
oh, I can't forget Johnny........................... Johnny G........ You friggin Rock...... I got to meet a bunch of hollywood stars because of you. Made me feel so alive!!!!

Thank you Jim for being my boyfriend back in the day and turning me on to music and drums and bars and dancing and singing and boating and for introducing me to Tina..... My sweet YOGI!

Thank you Tina........................... thank you for being my ex boyfriends girlfriend...... LOL Thank you for shoulders, your finger down my throat when I would drink too much, your late night phone calls, your non judgemental friendship of a lifetime, your...... finally getting your life on track so I don't have to worry about you anymore. You will always be my Yogi and I will always be your Boo boo...... xoxo

A special Thank you to Sheri and Deano........... Thank you for saving Shanelle and Chellsea's lives when you brought that extra tent to the campground when lightning struck.... I still wear the cross around my neck as a reminder of how Guardian Angels are watching over our family. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for helping me recover from that very traumatic night..... Thank you for holding me when I was crying, thank you for taking me to the Emergency room for some sort of calm me down pills......... thank you for sleeping with Steve and I that night in Shanelle's little waterbed..... I could not have made it thru that night without you being right there in the same room with us.

Thank You Nikki Nikki Rimbo no so Rimbo Momma Moochie Gomma Gomma Goochie. I love you so much.... I'm so grateful my sister had a daughter before she passed away, and you are so much like her.... It took me along time to not see my sister when I looked at you, now when I look at you, I see you..... I know you understand what I'm saying... I explained it to you a few years ago. Thank you for being the sweetest neice ever.... I'm so proud of you and your strength to survive what you have been thru losing your sweet Mother. I will admire you for the rest of my life!

Thank You Jeff......... You have been the best brother in law ever. I'm so happy you and my sister created Nikki and for that.............. I will love you till the day I die and beyond. You my sweet friend are just a hoot and I love the way we laugh and the way we just can be so silly and hang out and have so much fun together. I'm sorry for the loss of you Mother and I'm so happy you finally get to see the fruits of your labor with Nikki...... She's incredible and you did such an awsome job...... I love our phone calls..... You just let me rant and go on and on and you are such a great listener...... So non judgemental. I think you are really the only one that really knows where I came from. You were there... You saw everything! I love you Jeff...... I love you, I love you I love you!

Thank You to everyone that has been a part of our lives for the good, the bad and the ugly.. There's so many people I could thank for being in our lives....... I'd be on this page for the next year if I had to Thank everyone.... so if your name is not on the list... Don't fret..... I'll mention you somewhere along the line in my blog........ xo


To all my brother and sister in laws............... Thanks for accepting me just the way I am.... Wild and crazy and crazy and wild....... No further explanations needed.. Love ya, love ya, love ya! I love your Family so much and I will always treasure each and every one of you! xoxoxoxoxo


© Kiki LaFleur-Wilson