Kimberly Reid

He was one of the co-captains of the football team with me.

And I look over there, and there's my brothers, Mark and Todd.

And we were all very close in age, so we had friends in common, and they're telling stories about my dad.

And there's...

I look over on the couch and there's Frank.

I probably should have also told you that not only was I on the football team, but I was the quarterback.

And so I look over on the couch and there's Frank.

He's an offensive lineman.

It's the job of an offensive lineman to protect the quarterback.

And Frank is protecting me once again 20 years later under very different circumstances.

And he's got his arm around my girlfriend.

They're laughing and knocking back cans of cheap beer.

And that was the moment that I knew things were gonna be okay somehow.

And there was one more person there that night and that was my mom.

And she told me something that we ended up repeating quite a bit that weekend, through the services.

She came up and she said, you know, dad was always fixing things and it looks like he fixed this too.

She said, you know, even though your father has died, you've been reborn.

Thank you very much.

I tended at that time in my life to presume what other people's reactions to me were going to be instead of letting them have their own reaction.

And I was wrong about a lot of people.