I know. [She knows that it was his choice that he made purely because he had wanted to, and it was why she had never did dwell long on mourning his death. But that didn't change the very real reality that one of her first, and perhaps closest friends was no longer there.]
... But a part of me wishes you could be there with us.
[action, February 18th]
... But a part of me wishes you could be there with us.