If you had been a boy,
Your first name might have been Gage
Or Preston
Or Pryce.
Your middle name would have likely been Emory,
Like your father and your grandfather.
If you had been a girl,
Your first name might have been Madeline
Or Lily
Or Daisy.
Your middle name might have been Emory as well.
You would have been the youngest of four children
And the youngest of eight grandchildren.
You would have had three older brothers;
One who would have helped to take care of you,
One who would have played with you when you were big enough,
And one who would have had a hard time understanding why he was no longer the baby.
You would have been the child of a beautiful and nurturing mother
Who would have nursed you to health during the first six months of your life.
You would have been the child of a devoted and caring father
Who would have spent every free moment helping to take care of you.
You would have been loved;
Completely,
Totally,
Unconditionally,
Forever.
We will never know what you would have looked like,
Or what your voice would have sounded like,
Or whether you would have been an artist,
Or an athlete,
Or a student.
We can only hope that one day all these questions will be answered,
But not in this lifetime.
Thank you for the joy that you brought to our lives,
If only for a short time.
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Jason: not only Rylan, you, and me have Emory as our middle name but also Rylan’s great, great grandfather (my grandfather) was named William Emory Campbell ( I don’t really know after that though I have some stuff from Aunt Myrtle that might identify others). Dad