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Well, where do I begin....

I have known my good friend Dickie for 18 years. We have done so much together and I have so many memories of him. He was a fiesty, loveable, funny young man who could always see the good in people. His laugh was so contagious I can still hear it now....

Then at the beginning of February 2013, tragedy struck. We were out bowling when one of the friends we were with told me Dickie had suffered a heart attack. We assumed he would be ok as most people recover from a heart attack don't they...?

Then two days later I received a phone call from my friend, Mark informing me that it was a cardiac arrest, not a heart attack he had suffered, and he had catastrophic brain damage! We went to the hospital that night to say our goodbyes but Dickie, being the stubborn little git that he was, decided he wasn't going anywhere just yet. He was on life support for about a week and a half then the decision was made to turn his life support off. His partner stayed by his side and we hoped that a miracle would happen, but sadly he passed away about a week later.

So I am asking all of you to please dig deep as nobody needs a broken heart.