Ken Valle
I'm streaming Uncle's Celebration of Life with the camera fixed on his coffin, with his face in view. I'm hearing his voice, with interspersed laughter after I kiss him on the cheek - and it was the same response every time I had the chance to kiss him on the cheek - "Eh, you kiss me, eh?!" And then turning to Auntie Carol, "Eh, he wen kiss me. Kenny wen kiss me." And then turning back again to me, "Eh, you kiss me." My next-to-last words the last time we saw each other and he was going back to Hawaii: "I love you, Uncle." His last words: "Eh, you going kiss me again?!" My last words: "Yep."