I have so many great memories of Lucas that will forever be ingrained in my heart and mind. Lucas was 2 years ahead of me in school and when he graduated from STJ we never lived in the same city, but still kept in touch all throughout the years. Every time we saw each other or spoke on the phone we just picked up right were we left off. He would remember every detail of what was happening in my life the last time we had spoken. He always asked about each person in my family individually. He\u2019d want to know how my nephew was doing in school and he would even ask about my brother-in-law. Lucas was just that type of caring person.
\nSo, I wanted to share a couple vivid memories of Lucas. The funniest thing that I have ever seen in my life was watching Lucas in tumbling class at the Armory. Mr. Harris signed him up to take tumbling because it is supposed to help football players with their coordination \u2013 or something like that. I can still perfectly picture Lucas trying to do all these gymnastics moves with his arms and legs sprawled out all over the place! Of course, he was laughing the entire time, as was I. It was too funny! Needless to say, those classes didn\u2019t last too long.
\nThen there\u2019s the Spring Break in Destin when Lucas decided to swim across the bay to come and see me at my condo. Our condos were across the bay from each other and he didn\u2019t have a car so Lucas just swam across it! It\u2019s a far swim \u2013 probably a couple football fields. What can I say – I can\u2019t imagine anyone else swimming across a body of water to come and visit me except for Lucas.
\nLast summer when I moved to Birmingham after college, Lucas came to hang out with me. We had the best time – there wasn\u2019t even so much as a pause in our conversations. We laughed about old times and just stayed up all night long talking.
\nAs thoughts and memories of Lucas resonate through my mind everyday, I realize that people like him are so far and few between. I\u2019m so grateful for the good times times we shared and I thank him for being him. Lucas was truly a very special person and I will never forget him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have so many great memories of Lucas that will forever be ingrained in my heart and mind. Lucas was 2 years ahead of me in school and when he graduated from STJ we never lived in the same city, but still kept in touch all throughout the years. Every time we saw each other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeld.to\/lucas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeld.to\/lucas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeld.to\/lucas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeld.to\/lucas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeld.to\/lucas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeld.to\/lucas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeld.to\/lucas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeld.to\/lucas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeld.to\/lucas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}