{"id":6622,"date":"2015-10-19T21:28:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T01:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/?p=6622"},"modified":"2016-03-19T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T15:19:12","slug":"remembering-becca-with-one-of-my-favorite-facebook-exchanges-or-i-always-want-to-call-you-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/2015\/10\/19\/remembering-becca-with-one-of-my-favorite-facebook-exchanges-or-i-always-want-to-call-you-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Becca with one of my favorite Facebook exchanges, or: “I always want to call you, friend…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK so… yeah, this is ridiculously self-indulgent and perhaps altogether pointless, but it brings some joy to a saddened heart, so feel free to skip this post\u00a0if you’re so inclined.<\/p>\n

(Edited for clarity, brevity, and identity stuff…)<\/p>\n

\"blgpinacolada\"(To set the tone, start singing Rupert Holmes’s classic “Pi\u00f1a Colada” song in your mind…)<\/em><\/p>\n

Becca<\/strong>:\u00a0Wasn’t someone talking about Slurpees AND Pi\u00f1a Coladas recently?<\/p>\n

Suz:\u00a0<\/strong> She (and Matthew\u00a0who started this whole thing) is going to single handedly be responsible for my insanity this week!!!<\/p>\n

Becca:\u00a0<\/strong>I’m sure I don’t know what you’re talking about! I’m singing Bette Davis\u00a0Eyes now. Her hair is Harlow gold…<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0<\/strong>I figured you just couldn’t come from somewhere back in her long-ago. That’s what a fool believes!<\/p>\n

Suz:\u00a0<\/strong>When she first started this I thought she was talking about how it’s a world of laughter, a world of tears, a world of hope and a world of fears….<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0<\/strong>I plan on surviving on the old man’s money…<\/p>\n

Carmen:\u00a0<\/strong>To Matthew, you and Becca need to man and woman up!<\/p>\n

Becca:\u00a0<\/strong>You do not want us to merge forces.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Mas peligroso<\/span><\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0<\/strong>You know when I man up the most? When I’m walking through the park, and reminiscing.<\/p>\n

Carmen:\u00a0<\/strong>OMG!!! I am going nuts!!!!<\/p>\n

Becca:<\/strong>\u00a0I’m not talking about moving in!<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0<\/strong>I hope nobody leaves this conversation. If you do, baby come back. Any kind of fool can see there was something in everything about you.<\/p>\n

Carmen:\u00a0<\/strong>HELP!!!!<\/p>\n

Becca:<\/strong>\u00a0They might keep forgetting we’re not in love anymore<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0<\/strong>This conversation has it all. Just like Bogey and Bacall. Starring in some old late late show…<\/p>\n

Becca:<\/strong>\u00a0Just make a wish baby. And I will make it come true.<\/p>\n

Carmen:\u00a0<\/strong>Now I am going, I should have been off the computer two hours ago and winding down. So down I go.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0<\/strong>Carmen’s going to sleep? Alas. She’s gone. Oh I, oh I don’t know how to face it…<\/p>\n

Suz:<\/strong>\u00a0Matt, Matt, Matt….no one is leaving this conversation because near, far, wherever you are…<\/p>\n

Becca:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes well sleep or not, Young and beautiful , Someday your looks will be gone. When the others turn you off , w<\/span>ho’ll be turning you on? I will.<\/span><\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong>\u00a0I hope she wakes up and someone calls her angel of the morning, angel…<\/p>\n

Becca:\u00a0<\/strong>I actually heard a Juice Newton song today but now she’s gone. Oh my. I’d pay the devil to replace her.<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>:\u00a0This is just an awesome group of people. I mean, you are a magnet, and I am steel…<\/p>\n

Becca:<\/strong>\u00a0And your kiss is on my list.<\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong>\u00a0In all honesty, keeping these Easy Listening lyrics coming so effortlessly is really hard. I used to think that it was so easy. I used to say that it was so easy. But I’m trying, I’m trying now…<\/p>\n

Becca<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0Maybe you should just ride, ride like the wind to be free again?<\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong>\u00a0That was really touching. I cried a tear. You wiped it dry.<\/p>\n

Becca:<\/strong>\u00a0That’s why I’m easy. Easy like Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong>\u00a0Are you really that easy? Twice on the pipe if the answer is no…<\/p>\n

Becca:<\/strong>\u00a0Hey I take it minute by minute. I keep holding on.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0<\/strong>Nothing to be guilty of.<\/p>\n

Becca:\u00a0<\/strong>It’s true, but I’m all out of love. I’m so lost without you.<\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well it’s alright. Once you get past the pain..<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Becca:<\/strong>\u00a0Just remember I love you and it will be alright.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0<\/strong>( . . . . . )<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0<\/strong>((The above was an instrumental. Chuck Mangione’s “Feels So Good”))<\/p>\n

Becca:<\/strong>\u00a0I know. You feel light in your head and dead on your feet. Well, another crazy day – You’ll drink the night away and forget about everything<\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong>\u00a0*air saxophone*<\/em><\/p>\n

Becca:<\/strong>\u00a0I’m going to bed, but it was nice sharing the night together. Oh. Yeah. And PS, I warned all of you people that you did not want to combine the magic of Matthew\u00a0<\/em><\/span>and myself. We time traveled with our awesomeness.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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In honor of my undeniably brilliant, effortlessly charming, and deeply beautiful, wonderful friend, whose heart was a deep well of empathy, concern, and love for the fellow ridiculous creatures she called her friends. She made everyone around her feel like a freakin’ LEGEND.<\/p>\n

\"blgmeandbecca\"

Yacht Rock stars!<\/p><\/div>\n

As I type this words, you’ve been gone for six months now. And I still can’t process it. Can’t accept it. Not yet. Your star shined so damn bright, we’ll be basking in your light for a long, LONG time. Thanks for still keeping us so warm, Rebecca Madan Kollaras.<\/p>\n

Oh, and… I think this’ll work:<\/p>\n