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LU ‘25 | 🎺👩🏽‍🔬
✨Read a book, write a play✨
🌸04.13.2026🌸
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182 days. 6 months. 1/2 a year. Of trying to figure out how to live a new life without you. And it’s fucking hard. From the outside it might look like I’m okay, with my new job that I love so much, an amazing team of therapists, doctors, and my psychiatrist, and my combination of medications that are helping me get through the days. But in reality I’m living hour by hour fighting to get through each day, just to start all over again the next day. It feels like just yesterday but it also feels like it’s been so long. It doesn’t feel fair. Like why me? Why my mom? Why our family? Just why? I miss you. So much. All I can hope is that you’re up there thriving ❤️ I love you.
እያሱ፣ በሰላም ዕረፍ። ❤️ iyasu, beselami ‘irefi. by @fionacranley

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1.5 years with my best friend and love of my life ❤️ thank you for 1.5 years of endless smiles and laughs even if it’s through a screen. Long distance is hard but I love you forever and always and I can’t wait until the smiles and laughs through a screen become in person and never through a screen again ❤️ I love you lovey ❤️ taken in China Cabinet by @fionacranley

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7 days ago

You’re supposed to be celebrating your 17th birthday today. Going out with friends, fishing, doing all the things you love, but instead, we’re celebrating without you. I somehow can’t believe this day is already here and how in 4 days you will have been gone for 4 months. I still sometimes think that this is just a terrible dream that we’ll all wake up from. But I have yet to wake up.

I’ve wanted a tattoo for a while, long before you were even gone, but yesterday, I got one for you and I think you’d love it.

Happy birthday E 🩵💙We love and miss you so so much more than you could ever imagine. And I hope you can now see all the people who do. ❤️❤️ by @fionacranley

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2 months ago

Life Update: I FINALLY started my full time job! I finished my MA program a few weeks late bc of my brother and as you all know, it took ALOT of strength and not giving up. I posted some about this on my other account (@recoverwithfiona )but after I finished my clinical for MA was the trip to Ireland and then what was supposed to be a Michigan summer. Unfortunately due to insurance reasons to do with therapy, and it being too soon to leave my mom, I came back to Madison and finally started the job I hope to be in for a while - Medical Assistant with UW Health. My plan after that is to apply to Nursing School and make my way towards an MSN degree and become a Nurse Practitioner. I can’t express how grateful I am to my mom, my girlfriend, and all my friends and family for pushing me to move forward during the hardest time of my life. ❤️

PS: We’re also currently fostering 5 puppies and their mama which I’m loving. They’re up on the Shelter From the Storm website (https://www.sftsrescue.org) if you want to check them out and are interested in adoption. Tyson and Nico are still up! And Mama dog is available too! taken in Madison, Wisconsin by @fionacranley

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3 months ago

Summer so far ❤️📸 taken in Northern Michigan by @fionacranley

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3 months ago

Back in January, my mom had planned a trip to Ireland to tag along with my aunt and uncle. After everything happened with my brother, she changed those plans to allow me to come with her to experience this beautiful country.

When I first got on the plane, I cried. I couldn’t believe where I was going. And the reason behind it just made me physically sick to the stomach. Despite those feelings, my mom and I had a great time with my aunt and uncle.

There were ALOT of things that would remind my mom and I of Eyasu and of course there were times where we cried. We do often. But it was really nice to get away from home. Get away from where everything happened. And have a week and a half exploring the country where my Grandfather is from.

One of my favorite things I got to do while in Ireland was that I got to recreate a picture that my Grandpa took at Cahir Castle (pic 15). I am really really happy that I was able to do that. And stand exactly where my Grandpa once stood. The picture of my grandpa on the left has been on our fridge for years and years and I would often ask where it was taken. Knowing it was somewhere in Ireland, I reverse google searched it and finally found that it was Cahir Castle. I miss Eyasu more than any words could describe, I like to think he followed us to Ireland and was on the trip with us ❤️ taken in Ireland by @fionacranley

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4 months ago

Better break it down 🎵🎺🎵🎷🎵🪊
#luaroo2026 #alumni by @fionacranley

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5 months ago

Today we put my baby brother in his final resting place. On April 13 2026, Eyasu took his life. He was only 16 years old. He had so much life ahead of him and so so so so many people that loved and cared about him and he just didn’t see it. I still haven’t been able to even process that this is real. That my baby brother is gone and never coming back. I’m scared thinking about having to live life without him but I know he would want my mom and I to live our lives together to the fullest. I love you Eyasu and I miss you so so much ❤️ I would so gladly take the teen boy smell back if it meant you were here.

I come on here now to ask each and every one of you to PLEASE go right now check in on a loved one whether they appear “fine” or not. Depression can be hidden, and while my brothers was not necessarily hidden, it is still extremely important to check in on those people who seem completely fine. Just check in on someone, anyone, PLEASE. It very well could be the difference between life and death.

Please feel free to reach out to me with anything. I am happy to sit down and be the listening ear that you may need. Thank you all for the love and support as I go through the worst time of my life. I love you all ❤️ by @fionacranley

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One year down with my lovey❤️

Thank you for everything my beautiful girl. I cannot wait to continue making memories together forever and ever ❤️ by @fionacranley

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6 months ago

And a moment for the food….plus some extra views ❤️ taken in Ciudad de México by @fionacranley

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8 months ago

When the Cranley’s take on Mexico City 🫶🏽🫶🏽 taken in Roma Norte Ciudad de México by @fionacranley

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8 months ago

This year, I found out more about who I am and climbed out of the shell I had been hiding in for the past 22 years. With lots of fun memories in between…I got to play trumpet on the biggest stage and in front of the biggest audience I’ve ever played for (slide 13 and 16), I found the love of my life @izzie.smithh , I got my bachelors degree, and I went on my dream vacation to NYC, a place I’d wanted to visit since elementary school. I feel very lucky to be where I am today and I’m excited to see what 2026 has in store 🥰 by @fionacranley

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10 months ago