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Ryan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I lost a friend this summer, very suddenly. He was a phenomenal man. His name was Ryan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first met Ryan was I was around 14 and my dad brought him with us to a Twiddle concert after meeting him months prior and discovering they were from the same small upstate New York town. <\/p>\n\n\n

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It must have been fate! What a small world it is we live in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since, Ryan would be at my house when I would get off the school bus, talking to my dad, bonding over the Grateful Dead. He was a Dead Head to his core. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He would play disc golf with my parents. He was a pleasure to be around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, on July 10, 2022 he passed very suddenly. After 6 years of being a dear friend to my family and I he was gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember coming home from work that afternoon. There was a sense of somber, tears wiped onto our teeshirt sleeves as we shared stories with one another of Ryan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can recall driving to his funeral, in a Grateful Dead shirt like most of his other friends were. I shuffled my Grateful Dead playlist, “Black Muddy River” blared through my speakers. Then, “Brokedown Palace” and “Sing Me Back Home” played. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It felt as if he had handpicked the songs for my drive to the funeral home and sing him back home I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Perfect Pendant <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In February, my boyfriend got me a Grateful Dead pendant. It had a gorgeous sunflower, steal your face millie within a purple orb and an opal sat at the top of the pendant. I wore it everyday, everywhere. It quickly became my favorite piece of jewelry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was remarkably perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n

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When I would look at the pendant I could practically hear how excited Ryan would be, telling me how much he loved it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This weekend, I lost my dear pendant in a strangers lawn. I searched on my hands and knees for an hour looking for it with no relief. I returned to my dorm empty handed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I sat and thought about other jewelry I had lost I thought of the message that once a piece of jewelry leaves you it is because it can no longer serve you. It must serve someone else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I cannot possibly fathom that the pendant is anywhere else than stepped on and pushed into the soft ground. It now belongs to the earth, to Ryan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I declare my perfect pendant a gift to a dear friend of mine who was taken far too soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ryan I lost a friend this summer, very suddenly. He was a phenomenal man. His name was Ryan. I first met Ryan was I was…<\/p>\n

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