Mindy's Vows

      Ray...you are my brother by support, my best friend by laughter, and I cherish you like my child...my joy. I promise to appreciate the person that you are...the character that is Poppa and the mentor that was your Mother. I will honor you with adoration and humility... and keep with you through hardship and happiness. I will respect you with honesty...and trust with my heart. I celebrate your birth today by joining with you into a new birth of our own...and commit to it's nurturing. Today I will take our past beginnings, mistakes and triumphs, and rely on their enlightenment...to encourage my devotion. I love you Ray...and thank God for the man that you are. I look so forward to those rockin' chairs... and even more till we are rubbin' wings.