Melissa A. Little

December 11, 2014

Sweet Melissa, angel of my lifetime... we loved that Barry song! Yes, Melissa, you ARE the angel of my lifetime. You were my world. My first thought in the morning, last at night. Probably because we text morning, noon and night every day. Lots of times in the middle of the night. You were my BEST friend. We did everything together, we were a team. We got our nails and hair done together, food shopped together,shopped for and decorated your apartment together, helped planned family parties together. I won\\\'t be able to go to Stop&Shop anymore. It\\\'ll remind me too much of you having to switch your ice cream because I took too long.Your sarcastic sense of humor was the best. Though sometimes we had to worry, because you never held back & always said what was on your mind and that could be embarrassing! Not to you, you didn\\\'t care. You thought everyone was entitled to their opinion.You understood me better than anyone. You could cheer me up with nothing more than a text saying FIGURES! Or OH WELL! Or one of our many other quotes. When I thought nothing could make me laugh, you would. When I was down, you brought me up.You could make any mundane errand fun. Our many long rides to Boston could have been monotonous, but not with you around. Singing along to every song together after you switched the radio to 92.9! You could have conversations about all kinds of topics because you always watched the news because \\\"that\\\'s how you roll\\\". You turned all the times we got lost in Boston into fun adventures. We had more laughs seeing Chinatown for the third & fourth time trying to find a gas station. And asking random people for directions was always amusing. I almost regretted when we finally figured it out. We always got lost on the way to your dentist in the boondocks too, even with the GPS! But we\\\'d just stop at the quaint stores and see the horses.You loved spending time with your family more than anything. Whether we were sitting talking & laughing or playing board games, cards, Wii, having our scavenger hunts, 80\\\'s parties, Jackie\\\'s 60\\\'s party, Auntie\\\'s 40th & 50th parties, our trips to Salem, Sleepy Hollow, Florida & London. I think sometimes you had more fun helping plan them with your creative mind than participating.You had a special place in your heart for your grandparents and every single aunt, uncle and cousin. You talked to me about them constantly. They meant the world to you. I\\\'m only realizing now how much you affected each of them. Missy, you would have loved knowing they all think you were so cool & fun! Hearing their stories & opinions has made me even more proud. I used to tell you all the time how amazed I was by your organizational skills & how you were always on time for everything & how you ate every kind of vegetable. I would say WHERE did you come from?? I\\\'m still looking every day for texts from you starting with Dude! & ending with yo. People thought it was funny you called me dude. I loved it. I\\\'m so glad you got to fulfill your dream last month to jump off the Stratosphere. We watched your video of that today & you looked so beautiful & vibrant. That latest trip to Vegas last month was the best ever. I\\\'m so thankful we did it. We had so many more happy memories to make, but those chances got taken away from us. Everything reminds me of you, Melissa. I can\\\'t listen to music or watch TV, even the commercials remind me of you. You had so many favorite movies we quoted all the time. How many times did we watch Dirty Dancing(nobody puts Baby in the corner) Rocky 4 (if he dies he dies), Armageddon, The Crow, Avengers, Sound of Music, 3 Amigo\\\'s ( would you say I have a plethora of piñatas), The Silence of the Lambs (it puts the lotion in the basket), all the Halloween movies and Michael Myers? Anything purple and black makes me think of you. We had so many inside jokes, quotes, favorite songs, groups, singers, actors, TV shows! How can anyone see The Big Bang Theory BAZINGA! Or the Walking Dead & your Daryl, Ghost Adventures and your great friend Zak, Impractical Jokers, you wore the I Love Sal shirt Sal sent you to jump off the Stratosphere! Or Chris Meloni, or your favorite Gwen Stafani? How will I watch the Red Sox? Especially Big Papi? Or the Patriots, especially Brady & Gronk? You had such a passion for EVERYTHING and EVERYONE you loved! You were there whenever I needed you & I was there for you. I would have done anything for you. These past 5 years with you have been the best years of my life. We will take care of your precious kitty Elliot (Elliot Stabler). He misses you so much. I know you were excited to give me my Christmas present. But all I wanted & needed was YOU. I love you, my sweet angel of my lifetime. I miss you every second of every day and will love you forever. As you danced in the light with joy, love lifted you. As you brushed against this world so gently, you lifted us. T.C. RingIt Can\\\'t Rain All the Time-The Crow