(((((MOREHUGS)))))))
I've cried every time I've looked at this thread and the other one. Gipsy has a special soul and it shines through her eyes and the love and joy between you radiates from your photos, the ones of you together and the ones you took.
There's something special and different about the ones that grow up with us, love us through all the changes and into adulthood. We change, but the love between us doesn't. They are our stability in the midst of so much change, so fast. They teach us. They believe in the good in us and bring out the best in us.
I believe they never stop watching over us, and that someday, if we're paying attention, we look into the eyes of another one and know they've been sent -- or sometimes even have found their way back to our side <3
Still hurts like crazy though.