Darryl Bach died of a neurogenerative disease at age 52. Five years later, his best friend Kevin showed up for Darryl's parents in a special and unexpected way.
in November 2016 at 52, Kevin was as devastated and bereft as the rest of us. For a couple of years, he avoided visiting my parents; it was just too painful. Eventually, as the loss receded to a dull ache we all learned to live with, Kevin started coming around again. He’d stop by for coffee, and my parents would occasionally offer to babysit Kevin and his wife’s two young children to give them a break.
Five months after Darryl died, we had gathered on a sunny April day in a cemetery not far from my parents’ house to put Darryl’s ashes in a memorial wall next to our grandmother’s. At one point, Kevin walked away from the group to have a cigarette and noticed a tree cone lying on the ground. Preoccupied with the day’s events, he absently picked it up, tucked it in his pocket and forgot about it.
Half a dozen of the shoots took off, and Kevin replanted them in soil when they got big enough. Over the next few years, all but one of the plants died. Kevin nursed the lone survivor along, saying nothing to my parents about the little tree. He’d often talk to it — it somehow made him feel closer to Darryl. Occasionally his boss would walk by, overhear Kevin and gently tease him.“It’s Darryl,” Kevin told him.
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