Ashley
I'm getting married in a week and have been thinking about you more and more as it gets closer. I know you would have wanted to be here for it. I think you would love Jay, he has the same snarky and slightly off-color humor that you did. I like to imagine that in another life he would have teased you and you would've given it right back to him. You were always so quick to retort. When you died, I cried the most thinking about how if I were to get married, you wouldn't be there. I will never not be heartbroken that I didn't get to share this with you. You've missed so much and I'm still trying not to be angry that you were forced to leave before you were ready. I graduated high school. I went to college and graduated, worked a few years and then went back to graduate school and graduated again. I'm a counselor now and helping people feel better every day. I like to believe that you're proud of me, I know you are.
Tell Beans and Puffy and Tom hello for me, I know they found you (even if you might not have believed they would end up in the same place as you). I promise we're still taking good care of baby cat down here. Say hello to Aunt Shirley for me as well, I bet the two of you are wreaking havoc up there. I hope heaven is as beautiful a place as you imagined. I love you.