Remembering D'Andre

I’m having a hard time with this. I don’t understand it and despite spending days working on a memorial website for you, I’m absolutely refusing to accept that you are gone. I’m angry that you left everyone and I feel guilty for that…but it’s real. For days, Matt wouldn’t stop reading your last texts together and replaying conversations with you - I told him that he can’t keep doing that because we can’t change what happened. But here I am, a week later doing the same thing. Devin there were so many big moments that we were supposed to share together…your family needed you…Priscilla needed you...but you left us. For now, I’ll keep trying my best to memorialize you and offering all the support I can to the people who loved you most. Love you with all my heart, Des

By this point these words have certainly been shared with you over a hundred times, but they are no less sincere from each of us who struggle to find some way of comforting you. Devin was part of my family, he custom built my son's birthday present just a few months ago. For years Devin kept saying "we really need to get your kids and my niece and nephew together, I bet they would get along" and I'm so thankful that we finally did back in December for my daughter's birthday. He was an amazing friend to my fiancé and I. He was always there for us anytime we needed help with something. I cherish the days when he would come over with all of our friends and hang out for hours, whether it was for UFC, jiu jitsu or game night. Your Devin was an amazing person and inspiration and I'm so thankful to have shared time with him. Sincerely, Deseray