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08 Oct 2006, 9:30 pm / Other
RIP Mike "1BIGDogg" Gamble
9/23/57 - 10/3/06
You are forever in the wind now, my beloved crazy brother.
I will miss your late night phone calls, your gravely voice and your crazy stories that made me laugh till I cried.
I will miss your Instant Messages ... especially the one that said, "It's okay now, I'm here!"
I will miss your arrogance and your demands.
I'm so glad I made the trip in June to come see you and spend some time with you ... I keep thinking about you calling me and bitching me out for taking too long to get there!
I'll never forget the consequences of giving you too much Cal-Mag (hee hee), of washing your feet and helping you get dressed, of carrying your sorry butt to the hospital, and running out at 11:30PM to get you freakin' cigarettes!
I'll cherish the memory of you laughing at me when I rode your bike up and down - testing out the hydraulics! You were too weak to come out into the garage but you sat on the back steps and let me play on that beautiful Chief that I love so much.
And I figured out why you said I was going to love your headstone. You copied my avatar on the Indian forum and then you put it on your headstone too. I'm honored and touched. Just wish you would have told me and not made me wait till your funeral to see it.
Little did I know that less than four months later I'd be back in South Bend, but this time saying goodbye.
It's so hard to believe you're gone. I know you're in a better place now, but damn, I'm gonna miss you. You were such a character! IRIP will never be the same.
You're free my brother, free of pain and suffering, free to ride with the great Spirit on the streets of gold ... you and the Lord ... forever in the wind.
I love you and miss you...
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