We are blessed with a just a few true friends in our lifetime.  Nick was the definition of friend.  He was a friend and a brother.  He would be there when you needed him and didn't ask questions.  I lived, laughed, and cried with him, and now a piece of me goes with him.  Until we meet again, if I am ever unsure, I'll just bid 8 spades.

Nick was my friend and my extended family.  I met him when we were both young adults. We were among an eclectic group of friends from various backgrounds, but Nick was always there to share in our ups and downs and crazy times.  We watched movies together, we played video games, we played pool, we shuffled apartments and houses, and we chatted in the courtyard until all hours in the morning when things needed to be figured out, or to be done or said.  

As a friend he would use his skills, when needed, to lend a hand, whether it was to drive someone home, or to help somebody move into a new place.  For me, on one occasion, he created a dresser out of boards purchased at Lowes. On another occasion, he reconfigured a Tetris miracle, making a functional bedroom set out of purchase I made to fit a different space.  And because he could find the fun in every moment, he could always put together a mixed cd playlist to get you wherever you needed to go.

He was there to root on all of those he cared for, through birthdays, holidays, births, and weddings.  Personally, he wasn’t just in our wedding, and the life of the party with his “you can’t touch this” dance, but he helped to chauffer us around for the remainder of the night because weren’t quite ready for the night to end at closing time.

He shared in the lives of those around him and while I didn’t meet him until we were adults, one of the things I’ll always be grateful for is that once he considered you a friend, it was like he had known you forever.  He never treated you any less than family.  He welcomed you in, opened his life to you, and shared all the love and belonging that his life was so rich with, and I will miss him beyond words.

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19 février 1975 – 2 février 2024

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