Angel, I miss you dearly!!  / Alisha (Aunt Eshie) (Aunt)
Angel~
  I miss you terribly, I wish you didn't have to leave us on such short notice. It breaks my heart that you had to leave us. I think about you everyday and wish that you were here. I wish you were here so i could see you take your first steps and witness you saying your first words! Everyone misses you so much. I Love You so much!! Close

I love you so much!  / Angel's Mommy (Alisha)
Angel, I am so sorry you had such a short time with us.  I feel so guilty and confused that this had to happen.  I want so bad to hold you and kiss you.  I feel robbed.  I am greatful though for the time I did get to spend with you.  I am so glad we have so many pictures and memories that we can carry with us forever.  I want you to know that you have a wonderful family and we have the best of friends anyone could ask for.  Everyone loves you so much and that makes your mommy so proud.  I think about you and talk to you everyday and I know you hear me and that makes me feel so happy.  I love you so much and I miss you everyday.  Austin always draws you pictures and talks about you all the time.  That makes me so proud.  Your big brother loves you so much.  Love, your mommy Close

Wish I could have known you  / Steve Franks (Grampa)
ANGEL,
I wish I could have known you. You would have been a lot like your brothers only sweeter in a girl kind of way. 
I'll miss all the things that I do with my other granddaughters. I'll never tickle you, or rock you to sleep, or have to clean your face after you eat your second bowl of ice cream. I'll never get to watch you play on the swings or the monkey bars and fall off and skin your knees and nose.
I won't get to do these things but I will always think of you and some day I'll meet you and give you a big grampa hug.
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Letter to Angel from your mom  / Your Mommy
April 26th, 2007


Dear Angel
I still think about you everyday. Things are getting better though. I think that I have come to terms that you are never going to come back to me. I will see you when the time is right. I see signs from you all the time and I hope it’s really you. You are such a beautiful and loved child of mine. Your whole family loves you so much. Yesterday I showed Austin all your pictures and he did so well. I thought he would be more hurt with your loss if he put a picture with your name. He did great. He asked why you were so red and bloody. I told him that was because you did not cook long enough in my belly before the other angels took you. Then while flipping threw Austin saw a picture of grandma Taormino holding you. He then asked me “mom, why didn’t I get to go to the hospital and hold my sister?” The only thing I could think to say was that children were not aloud to go to the hospital because of our loss. He was ok with that answer. That hurt my feelings so much. If I would have known that he would have taken your loss so good I would have loved to bring him to see you and have had pictures of him holding you. This is a regret I think I now have. The positive thing is that we do have a lot of your pictures that we will be able to keep forever and both of your brothers can always look through them as I do everyday, when ever they want. Death can take the ones we love, but it can’t take our memories. We will cherish you and the memories we have of you forever and ever. Angel I want you to know that I love you forever and I will NEVER stop thinking of you and how beautiful you are. You are the most beautiful Angel up in heaven and when I see the brightest star at night I think of you looking down on the ones who love you. Love you forever, Mom
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Mommy's letter to you  / Alisha (Your Mommy)
April 9, 2007
My Precious Baby Girl

To my Angel
I can’t stop thinking of you. Every moment I get all I want to do is hold you, kiss you and touch you. I feel like I got robbed of my own child. This is not fair and that is what goes through my mind every day, all day. Why? Why us? I truly never thought I would give birth to a Girl, to call my own daughter. Now that I have, and lost you all I can think about is what it would have been like to raise a daughter. The things I said I didn’t want to have to do with a girl is the exact the things I now wish I could do. My best friend who I hope you would have been is gone forever. It was my duty to see to it that you were born healthy and strong. You were beautiful. I don’t know what I did and I beat myself up over it every day. I know that your Grandfathers and Tracy are looking over you everyday but I wish you were here with your family. You sure do have a wonderful family. You daddy is the best man I have ever meet. Even though he also said he didn’t what a girl, I want you to know he was just scared for your safety. He loved you instantly. I could just tell. And the way he talks about you being his baby girl and his daughter I know he loves you and always will until the day he dies. I also wish you could have met your brothers, Austin and Ethan. They would have protected you your whole life. They are wonderful. From the beginning of my pregnancy Austin said he wanted a baby sister. Knowing that you were a girl was hard for me to tell him. He did take the news rather well though I should say. I see him with his cousin Taylee and it makes me want to cry every time. She loves Austin so much. Why couldn’t that have been you sitting there laughing at your big brother. That should have been you. It is so hard for me to see her. She is so beautiful with her blonde hair and blue eyes. I know you would have looked just like her.
We got your cremation back two days ago and I was so happy to have you back at home. I hope you are here with us all the time. I hope when I talk to you hear me. I just only wish you could talk back. Tell me your okay. Let me know that loosing you was okay, that you are happy. I wish I could have done something to bring you back but I know some things happen for a reason and all I can do is hope that it was a good one and believe in faith. It is still really hard and I know it will be for a long time. I love you Angel and I hope you know that if you were here I would never put you down, I would kiss you all the time and I would never let you go. I love you baby girl, Love your Mommy
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My Grandaughter, Angel Brook  / Grandma Taormino (Grandmother)
My Sweet Lil' Grandaughter   
   Angel Brook Taormino
I am so, so sad that we cannot keep you here with us and watch you grow.  My heart actually aches for you.  My heart aches for your mommy and Daddy, and your two brothers Austin and Ethan.  I cannot imagine the pain that they feel with the loss of you.  You were the "Little Girl" that Grandma always hoped for everytime your Mommy told me she was pregnant.  I finally got my wish and then you were taken from me so quickly.  It seems so wrong, so unfair, so cruel.  God must have a special plan for you, please let us know what that is as we grieve for you.  Please know that you were so loved, so wanted, no one will ever fill that empty place in my heart.  I will think of you everyday for the rest of my life.  I will imagine a little blond hair/ blue eyed baby girl running around heaven.  You will always grow with me and forever be a part of me.  I will never forget you.  You left an imprint on my heart the short time you were ours.  Please look over Mommy and Daddy and Austin and Ethan.  Help them through each day.  Let them know with simple gestures that you are still with them, watching over them from heaven.  Please watch over Grandma Taormino too!  I cannot wait for the day that we meet again in heaven.  Please be there to meet me so I can hold you in my arms again.  I Love you my "baby girl", my Grandaughter, my "lil Angel"
      Till we meet again.............................
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