Hi everyone...I'm Lauryn Candreva and if you can't think of who I am I think that I was just about the only at the hospital who was more in absolute shock than absolute tears. I guess that I just really didn't think that it was happeneing, I felt more there to help everyone else than to actually sit down and realize what an absolutely perfect soul was slipping right by us. During school an announcement was made, and sad to say it my dense head still didn't realize anything...I walked into my english class and looked at the seat behind me thinking , oh, TC must be absent today...and when the class went on my teacher didn't remark so it was just oh ok he'll be in tomorrow...which I only wish were the truth.

I also wish that I had gotten to know TC a lot better than i had. He was such a great person but I guess it was one of those things that we all take for granted. I have hung out with him a few times and have to say that some of my funniest memories of high school were sitting next to him in band while we both "attempted" to "play" the clarinet. He was just the greatest person ever and whatever God's reasoning was it better have been a good one because it has really hurt alot of people in the process.

While I was at work today it finally hit me that one of the greatest souls was gone. I can't start to express the convulsions i went through and shortness of breath because I'm sure that we've ALL experienced it in some form from Saturday night on. I have to say that as absolutely HORRIBLE the whole entire situation is, I always learned to try to see a bright side. Through the tragedy that friends and family have experienced, TC is letting others live when they thought it almost impossible by donating his organs. He has also brought us together as a school and community. I could never imagine talking to anyone that I encountered at the hospital. We all had one common bond -- We were all there for TC -- I'm not sure that everyone had known that before they saw another's face at the hospital. He has helped us learn what it is to appreciate something, whether it be his friendship, sense of humor or whatever we loved him for, which there is an ongoing and neverending list.

By reading all these letters I think that we can safely assume he was EXTREMELY WIDELY loved and will always live on in our hearts. All we need to do is learn that we can all talk about him to eachother. I think that we are our best medicines because we can all relate. Please feel free to contact me to talk via email...

MUCH LOVE TO TC----BABY YOU WILL ALWAYS LIVE IN OUR HEARTS---WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU OR THE JOY YOU BRANG TO OUR LIVES---THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE. I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT THERE WITH YOUR FATHER--UNTIL WE SEE EACHOTHER AGAIN I WILL ALWAYS BE THINKING AND PRAYING OF YOU...

<3 Lauryn Candreva