Brii Brii's Daddy

My family was in a terrible car accident November 29, 2003. My daughter Briana died in that accident,only 8 days after her 12th birthday. She was a wonderful, loving little girl. Brii was one of 4 children. November & December have become difficult months. i used to love Christmas, but the 2003 & 2004 Holidays were a blur. Sometimes I can go a few weeks now, productive at work, but then the bad days return and I withdraw, unable to function or accomplish anything. I have accomplished nothing the last 2 weeks. Briana was "Daddy's little girl,": Butterfly kisses and whisker rubs every night. Even when I travelled on business, she would give me butterfly kisses over the phone. She was on my lap for Bears Football games or laying next me by the fire place. She was the peace maker among the family & other kids, a source of pure love in our family. My wife and kids are suffering so much, I think it's so painful because everyone experienced the accident. It was a bloody war scene on that Interstate, that changed all our lives forever. Everyone's physical pains are mostly healed, some will never heal, and I don't know if our hearts can ever heal. Your children trust you to keep them safe. As the father, I failed to do so. When we left for our Thanksgiving trip, noone imagined that their parents would not get them home safely. We were a very close family and did everything together. Now the family is like a wine glass that has been dropped on the floor; as we crawl around trying to find the pieces and glue them back together, we can't find them all and even with the glued pieces, it just isn't the same.