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"He was the coolest guy"

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I noticed very quickly after Daryl passed away (transitioned from this life to the next) what gave me so much comfort was to hear others share memories about him. Right after his memorial service someone came up to me and said,  "I really admired him, I felt a little intimidated by him because I thought he was the coolest guy and couldn't approach him but recently he reached out to me knowing that I was going through some challenging times and asked me some really good questions and wanted to get together to know more. He was the only one in the family that showed genuine interest in what I was going through." I think that sometimes we have a tendency to paint our loved ones who have passed on from this life in the best light possible as if they never did anything wrong. I know that Daryl wouldn't want me to do that. In fact,  I remember he once gave me permission to share whatever I wanted about our relationship if it would help someone else understand how we overca