Tuesday, September 3, 2019
I have hundreds of wonderful memories of my Aunt Dolly. Most of which are colored with her incredible laugh. To this day, I have yet to meet a person that had such a unique way of emphasizing the syllables in my name, which always had a undercurrent of love and caring. It's nearly impossible to pick only one memory of a person that had an outsized effect on who you become, so the one that I'll tell is both memorable and lacking in description. I remember being upstairs and playing with Doug and Jeff and hearing an extremely loud conversation with incredible laughter in the kitchen. It was so magnetic that we left our game of Risk and ran the stairs to investigate. Around the table were Dolly, my mom (Marilyn), Donna, Sally, Laurie and Linda, all in wipe-your-eyes boisterous laughter. I asked "What is so funny"? and Dolly smiled and said "Nothing really, this is what we do Chris-TOE-pher". It was always what she did, big laughs and big smiles. Much love, Chris-TOE-pher
