[Ayla]

Thanks Merika and Duke.

Ya know Merika, you're right about one thing, I'm blessed that the time I did have with my father left me with so many good memories. I know more than a few people who's fathers aren't a part of their lives in any way and the few memories they have of them aren't good ones.

And Duke, you're right...he is with me every day in my heart. At my wedding I insisted there be an empty chair in the front row for him. I laid a rose it it after I walked up the isle. And after the preacher man pronounced us man and wife I looked at that spot and could picture him sitting there smiling back at me.