Happy heavenly birthday Aunt Nita. We love you and we miss you so much.
This is the picture. Yall know which one. Her in the stands, both arms up, water bottle in the air like it was a drink, eyes closed cause the song hit and she did not care who was watching. She never cared who was watching. Thats the thing about her that a picture actually get right.
Look at that dress. Orange, pink, stripes, all of it at once. Nobody else at that show had on that dress and she knew it. And that smile with the eyes shut, that is the face of somebody having the best time in the building and not asking permission for it.
I picked this one over all the others cause this is how I want yall to see her. Not still. Moving. In the middle of something. She was always in the middle of something.
Today we gone do what she would do. Play her song loud. Somebody gone dance in a spot they got no business dancing in. Somebody gone cry in the middle of laughing and thats fine, thats how it go now.
Happy birthday Auntie. Save me a seat up there, near the aisle, so I can get up and dance too.
We love you. We miss you. Every single day.
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