As is well documented, I shared the same birthday as Paul's ex-wife. Waking up on that day from now on, knowing Paul will not have started a Happy Birthday thread for me will never be the same. He also was diagnosed with his illness on my daughter's birthday. And lastly,he died yesterday, 1 day shy of my brother's birthday today. It's like I'm not meant to forget him, even if I wanted to. (Which I don't).

BTW..SC, the death of Steven's 2 grandfathers is more tragic in that they died on the same day, not 1 day apart. Paul told me he called Steven's mom to tell him, and she said her father had must died. How aweful.

It has been pouring down raining non stop since 9:30 last night here in Baltimore. Tears from heaven.