The last time I saw Steven & Cindy was when he and Cindy visited me in December for their annual holiday trip to NY. They soon left to visit friends and stay with them . Steven decided to come back a few days later to spend some extra time with me and he took the train to Wantagh where I picked him up-

I had another special thing I always do with my 3 kids when they leave my house to go on with their lives. I said good bye to Steven when he left and I kissed , hugged him and told him how much I loved him and how proud I was of him and to be careful in the”big city”. But I always make up an excuse to then kiss, hug my kids a second time, and I got that second kiss, hug with Steven. I even got in another “I love you Steven and a I love you too dad” between us-

You see I always thought that in case something happened to me I would always have that second hug, kiss, and words for my last physical contact. Never did I consider or think that he would die before me and that this was in fact our last physical touch. It was his last time with me , go figure , who would have ever thought that- It is something I just thought about and wanted to share-Very painful but grateful that we had that moment- Jerry Wolkoff