1ST PAINFUL ANNIVERSARY
1 year!
12 months!
365 days!
8760 hours!
525,600 minutes!
31,536,000 seconds!
That’s exactly the time that has passed since I received that call from your niece…
The call that I was so worried about getting someday but I firmly didn’t allow my brain to accept that would come eventually!
Em & Dan in one of our many road trips
I will never forget the pain that I felt when the words “Danny was found dead this morning” violently shook me to the core! It felt like falling on a grenade that destroyed everything around me, including me!
I remember that pain! I’ve felt it a few other times but now was different … there was something different about hearing that your best friend has just passed away!!! 
1 year has passed but it feels like was just a few days ago and at the same time it feels like an eternity since you last were here with us.
Oh, I wish I had a Time Machine! I wish I could go back in time and tell you so many things! Or “re tell” you in many cases 
Danny, I know I’ve told you a thousand times that I love you and that you are the greatest friend and “guncle” to Romeo! But I wanted to tell you again!
I wanted to tell you again that no one would make me laugh as much as you do! I wanted to try to convince you to write that book about your taxi driver adventures in London because the entire world should know how exciting and still terrifying your job was! I wanted to tell you about what’s going on in my life and wanted your advice! And wanted to tell you off for your bad decisions and tell you how proud I was of your good ones!
I wanted to remind our adventures together and gosh, did we have some? 15 years of friendship!
Em & Dan around the world
We traveled to 8 countries together (some more than once)! In fact, so far, Danny, you were the person that traveled the most with me. For a solo traveler, I don’t really travel with other people very often, but I did the exception with you.
I haven’t even visited as many countries with my parents or my own son, as I did with you: Thailand, USA, Portugal, Italy, England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
We have been to countless concerts and have seen the biggest and best musical acts of our generation! All the musicals! All the road trips!
All the dinners and lunches that I tried to cook for you ahaha and the ones we went all around the world to some of the worse and best restaurants!
Honestly, I could just write forever about how much fun we had! The 2 of us, but also all of our beautiful friends together! Did you even know we have 154 friends in common on Facebook? Actually seems like a low number 
And my family! Gosh, did they love you? They all ask for you! Parents, sisters, cousins, aunties and uncles… you just made an impact to everyone you met!
And of course, I wanted you to keep seeing Romeo growing! You were there from day one! Following every single step! The first person ever visiting him! You gave him the coolest presents and as a Peter Pan as you were, you just knew how to play with him and he adored you!
We all did! Every single one of us loves you! Because you were the best! You truly were one of a kind! And I doubt I will ever meet anyone with a heart as big as yours!
You shall never be forgotten and will share our stories and adventures to anyone that will be willing to listen!
Romeo & uncle Danny
I love you! Rest in peace my dear friend! 
PS: Romeo woke up today and asked me to play with the blocks, which were one of the last presents you gave him! It’s funny because he hasn’t mentioned those blocks in months or even over a year! That just proved me you are still very much here! I love you my friend
What a wonderful tribute to my beautiful Danny. The void in my life is immeasurable and doesn’t seem to be getting any easier. I talk to him everyday.
Hope you’re well Emma.
Love Ian.