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foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] so hold those you love closer hug them a little tighter and tell them you love
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them we'll find Justice For You Ethan Maddie and Kaylee we love you all so much choose my baby sister but she was so
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much wiser foreign never had a boyfriend before and my dad and I wondered if she was ever gonna get
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one [Music] the way she would talk and smile about him was something I've never seen her do
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before they had something so special and everyone around them knew [Music] today we're here to honor The Life and
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Legacy of our son Ethan Chapin one of the most incredible people you'll ever know
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[Music] so Ethan started it was in the spring of of 21. it was the best Tulip Festival
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[Music] well he's a big guy wearing a big smile right I think that's the part that I
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that that kind of struck me right away foreign [Music] it really is our hope that we'll be able
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to continue to plant and that anybody that wants to remember them will be able to have their own Ethan's Ethan smile
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Garden it's a living Legacy [Music] my only child that we ever had and uh so just smart and funny and beautiful
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[Music] she was really funny her jokes really would come out of nowhere and just be
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like is that the cute little blonde girl that just said that [Music] she was the first person I talked to
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every morning and the last person I talked to before bed [Music] you truly will live on forever
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not only in my heart but in the heart of so many people that were impacted by your beautiful smile
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Your Grace your patience your open heart and your craziness [Music] you know most things as a dad you can
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you can handle but something like that you just can't prepare for and you can't fix it as a father that's a terrible
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feeling foreign this was a person that was going to go into your community to make it better
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all these kids were going to make your community better you would want them as your neighbor
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you'd want them to interact with your children she grew up around two boys that were
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you know older than her and she didn't see any reason why she couldn't be as quick and fast and as good as those two
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boys [Music] yeah you don't heal from something like this it's never gonna happen you're
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never gonna be healed you're never gonna get through this [Music] when they died part of you dies
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