Emails to Heaven

I miss you so much. I just want to hold your hand again. I hope you knew how important you were to me, and how much I loved you. I just want to go back and feel loved again. If I ever have a son, his name will be John, and he will know all about his amazing great-uncle.
I hope heaven has shamrocks. I hope it has music. I hope you have friends and a boyfriend.
I hope epilepsy and mitochondrial disease don’t exist in heaven. I hope you can walk and run and hear again. I hope you teach Papa some showtunes on his banjo.
I miss you so much. I love you so much. I can only hope I am making you proud.
– your loving and heartbroken nephew