Dedication

Dedicated to 

Alexie Rai Krill

July 6, 1988 - September 22, 2012

A beautiful independent woman in life, and most importantly an eternal kindred spirit.

She truly taught me of love & loss.

~ Artemis Grey

And live I still to see Relations gone,

And yet survive to sound this wailing tone;

Ah, woe is me, to write thy Funeral Song,

Who might in reason yet have lived long,

I saw the branches lopt the Tree now fall,

I stood so nigh, it crusht me down withal;

My bruised heart lies sobbing at the Root

- Anne Bradstreet, To the memory of my dear Daughter in Law, 

Mrs. Mercy Bradstreet, who deceased Sept. 6. 1669. in the