Your Tio Claudio died Baby girl. He was my very best friend, he was always there for me, to advise, to laugh and cry with me, to lean on. He loved me and he loved you. You have some beautiful letters from here in Letters from Ohana. He was family.

I have been talking now for weeks with Tio Pino y Tia Rosy. Claudio was all that time in hospice but he was unable to talk. We used to send him videos, short messages. Pino said he liked looking at them but it was so difficult for me to do because what do you tell to a friend who is dying? Rosy and laura asked for happy messages. We tried to take some sadness away, we talked garbage, we tried to make him feel the part of our every day life and more than anything we let him know that we think of him and love him. But I never addressed the seriousness of his situation apart from one message but don’t know if Rosy showed it to him. I felt like I can’t just ignore how sick he is and that he may not recover.

At that time we knew there is no chance for recovery and he suspected it too. Then he understood there is no more hope. We stopped making our short videos because we were told Claudio just cries when he sees us on the video message.

It wasn’t long though before they would start sedating him heavily so by the time he dies he was hardly present.

It has to be so difficult for his family, his two sisters and his mum! I got very close to Rosy and Pino. I hope we will remain close and i hope baby that for you these people will become a bit like Tio Claudio.

Thank you for being so good and supportive. You are so lucky you had an uncle like tio Claudio. I always hope he will be always in your life because it’s a person from who you could have learned so much

Treasure you memories of him

Let’s keep him in our hearts baby girl, let him be your Guardian Angel. I would trust him with your life. Now each time we are separated whenever i worry about you I will say “Claudio, you better make sure our baby girl, your Nieta is safe”

Be safe and remember your Guardian Angel