This is the absolute best I’ve seen on FB in quite a while. About my same age, Rob was Senior Warden when I was Treasurer at GSS Episcopal in Colorado Springs. For most of his career he was a fireman and a USAF vet who died a few years back of a job-related GBM (glioblastoma multiforme). Basically that’s brain cancer – the bad kind. This is from Rob’s widow, Kathy. Whenever I feel like whingeing, I read this. Then I shut my trap.
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I see a lot of posts joking about how people are getting irritated by being cooped up with their partners. Believe me, I totally get it. But I would give anything to be “irritated” by being cooped up with Rob during this crisis. Boy, how he could get on my nerves…
Like the way he used to make my coffee exactly the way I liked it, down to the appropriate number of seconds to heat the milk to just barely sweet. The way he used to make my breakfast before I left for work on his days off, and text me “Good Morning Sunshine” when he was working. The way he once designed an entire secret code system just so he could send me love messages when he was deployed to Afghanistan. And the way he worked on my bike endlessly just so he could make riding even more enjoyable for me.
I miss you endlessly, Rob.
Robert Coffey: The Absolute Best.