Broken heart and irreplaceable smile
I can't write this without crying. I feel a whole new level of pain that I have never experienced before. Its surreal and I am still in shock. When I got the call on Sunday night, I felt my heart sink to new depths. As it sits now, my cousin Jake is no longer with me and that is a hard pill to swallow. He was my little brother in a sense. It all started in 2007. I had just come out of a bad break up with a girl I was engaged to for 4 years that couldn't commit. I had to make the decision for both of us because there was nothing left to do. She moved out in December of 2006. I started singleness in 2007. I was on wellbutrin and had been taking it for a number of years to help with the depression of my divorce and my father's death. I finally decided I was done with that shit. I quit cold turkey. I phased my life out of the bike shop around March of 2007 as I was getting lots of work in the event space. It was good for me to travel but I had to leave my k