Missing You Kuttans!

Sleep my beautiful father! We will be together when my time is up!You gave me everything in life that I could dream of and more...I just had to ask you and like a magician bringing out the rabbits and doves out of his hat,you would do so... I remember very fondly when I was terribly ill as a child and admitted in the hospital for nearly a month, you would come by every evening to visit me after work and I would eagerly await you just to run into your arms and show you off to the other children in the same ward.
 I would have a new demand everyday-this particular day that I fondly remember is that the girl beside my bed had this beautiful ,gorgeous doll in a turquoise dress almost like a belly dancer bejeweled with sequins...I don't remember what, but I wanted the same! She also got some lovely whole chicken that was roasted or grilled, I was too young to know the differnce and the waft of that made me so envious of her...and I wanted that as well and guess what, you did buy me a doll not as expensive as hers and you did get me a lot of grilled chicken and we sat together chomping and licking our fingers enjoying that chicken :)

I was so elated, I didn't care if the doll didn't look like the girl's doll, but the fact that you, my hero bought me what I asked for was all that mattered to a ten year old like me at that point in time!
You were truly the wings beneath my wings...

This picture was taken soon after my father's passing as he was so far away from us, a cousin took this on his cell phone and emailed us. We were forced to wait for my father's body to arrive as there were too many procedures and paperwork to be signed at the place he died.
The body that arrived didn't resemble my father...SOB :( my father looked as green as HULK! it had to be embalmed.
 My brother said he did see his soft, pink fingers and Pa's arm went over his head (just like how it used to whenever he watched TV) as they dressed my handsome father before the funeral...

I will always miss you Pa!