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“Adaiah,please!” by @adaiahmone

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a month ago

by @adaiahmone

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3 months ago

Today is your 36th birthday, and the world feels so extremely quiet.

I went through your baby book today and found picture after picture of us together. Me holding you, kissing you, standing behind you. I guess from the moment you got here, being your big sister became one of the most important parts of who I was.

For a long time, I struggled with the fact that there was nothing I could do to keep you here. Truthfully, some days I still do.

But today, as I looked through those pictures, I found myself thinking about something different.

I hope the moment I had to let you go was the moment God wrapped His arms around you and took over where I couldn’t.

I hope you finally caught your breath.

I hope every ounce of pain, fear, and suffering was gone.

I hope you felt at home.

And I hope the first words you heard were, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”

I love you. I miss you.

Happy 36th Birthday, Michael. by @adaiahmone

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4 months ago

“baby you need a finsta” by @adaiahmone

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4 months ago

Two years without my handsome baby.

You were my favorite person. My whole heart.
And I still don’t think there are words big enough for what losing you actually feels like.

There’s a version of me that existed when you were here that I don’t think I’ll ever fully get back. And there’s a version of me now that’s still learning how to carry you without breaking.

I don’t know how to measure time without you. It feels like it’s been forever since I’ve seen your face or heard your laugh, but also like I could turn around and you’d still be there calling me “Day Day”.

I think about you every day. I talk about you all the time. I cry over you often, because loving you was never small, so losing you was never going to be either.

Some days I move through life like I’m okay. Other days I feel the weight of it all over again. But I keep going, because loving you didn’t stop. It just changed shape.

I’m still learning how to live in a world where you’re not here while missing you everyday. by @adaiahmone

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6 months ago

Rain, sleet, or snow. Still rocking with you. taken in Chicago, Illinois by @adaiahmone

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9 months ago

2026, please be kind to all of us. 🤎 by @adaiahmone

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9 months ago

This is year I have really been mindful about being present. I have been trying my best to quiet my mind and really take in every single moment, because I know how quickly it all slips through your fingers. You wake up and suddenly what you were living becomes a memory.

This birthday was the one I celebrated with such an open heart, because it was the first time I allowed myself to feel happy and grateful that I am still alive. A part of me still carries survivor’s guilt, but I know Michael would want me to live.

And I enjoyed every moment of Jackson Hole. From falling down on the ski slopes, to eating waffles on one of the tallest mountains at the resort, to wearing a bikini in the snow, drinking too many espresso martinis while sitting on a saddle at a country bar.

This birthday was so special to me and I am so grateful. taken in Jackson Hole, Wyoming by @adaiahmone

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9 months ago

SBH ’25 taken in St Barth by @adaiahmone

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a year ago

You would’ve been 35 today.
Happy birthday, Michael.

God has always placed “Happy Birthday” heavy on my heart, like the song was written with me in mind to deliver it. And when it came to you, I sang it like it was the only birthday that mattered.
Your last birthday was no different. I gave you my very best, hung up the phone, and bawled my eyes out. Because deep down, I knew. That was our last.

So yeah, this song might be going into retirement now.

Your absence is still the heaviest thing I carry.
Even though I know you’re gone, my heart still doesn’t believe it.
Sometimes I replay the past just to feel close to you and when I think about the future, all I hope is that I’ll see you again.

People say you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone, but I always knew. I’ve always known how blessed we were to have you.

Whether we had you for 33 years or a lifetime, it wasn’t enough.

I hope you are somewhere dancing because I still think about it, and it makes me smile, just like only you could.

I miss you. I love you.
Day Day by @adaiahmone

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a year ago

Me: I need to start taking more photos
Also me: opens camera roll 🫠 by @adaiahmone

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a year ago

I’ve thought about what to say in this post for months, and last night it hit me—it doesn’t really matter, because you’ll never see it.

365 days without you, and it still feels like yesterday. I didn’t know my heart could hurt this much. I didn’t realize how much of me was you—because I haven’t been the same since you left.

From me claiming every TV in the house during our summer vacations and you not watching a single one—just letting me take over but only until Twonshae got up. From racing home after school to watch Zoom on PBS, to us sneaking outside when we were home alone and me yelling your name at the top of my lungs when Daddy turned the corner home early from work.

To you, 20+ years later, finally telling me how much you hated the smell of my eggs—even though I ate egg and cheese burritos every single day after school and you never once said a word. To watching me drink too many dirty martinis, so I stayed over and we talked all night while eating Tommy’s.

To flying back and forth from Dallas to California to be there through your fight with cancer. To watching you take your last breath.

I still see memes and think of you. I try to send them to other people, but no one gets it like you do. I still ask, what would you think? what would you do? I still apologize for not accessorizing. And now, when something good happens in my life, I find myself thanking you—like you had a hand in it from up there.

I know you’re good. I know you’re happy. But I wish you could be good and happy down here with me.

It’s been 365 days. I’ve cried every day. Talked to you every day. Thought about you every day.

I just miss you.
I really, really miss you. by @adaiahmone

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2 years ago