Ambuяя's Wall-to-Wall with Kyle


Ambuяя Najilah Stewaяt-Botley>Kyle Strang: kylie rhymes with smiley, and thats what i miss about you the most. that beautiful smile you were always smiling...love you love,

happy 4.20

thanks for the little bit of sunshine we got this morning... it was hella dope considering the rain 
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Ambuяя Najilah Stewaяt-Botley  its been 20 days... happy 4.20 my loves Prentice Theodore Gray & Kyle Strang. I know yal up there... hella up there :) . that’s hella dope. ima try n put one in the air for you guys... I love you... miss you! thanks for the little bit of sun that we have even though its raining... ♥

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Ambuяя Najilah Stewaяt-Botley>Kyle Strang: heyyy kylie! i made your mom thee most dopest bracelet ever, and she loves it! i wish you could see it, it has all the colors of the south african flag in it. its hella nice. well anyways, fucking miss you! love youuuuu! ♥
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Ambuяя Najilah Stewaяt-Botley>Kyle Strang: miss you, love you! 
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Ambuяя Najilah Stewaяt-Botley  I bet Prentice Theodore Gray & Kyle Strang are up there slapping Kush & Oj with their Kush & their Orange Juice havin hella fun. mannn its been 2 weeks today, and I miss you both like crazy... but as time passes by I’m learning to accept what has happened. I love you always, one day ill see you guys again. save me a spot up there!

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Ambuяя Najilah Stewaяt-Botley>Kyle Strang: heyyy kyle! watcha doiiinnn... nah but really, saturday was probably thee highlight of my week && it truely made me happy being able to send my lovelys off to jr prom. it jus sucks that you couldn't escort them as you were supposed to. but i must say, hannah allie ashley && yaya looked sooo beautiful, i took soo many pictures lol. i wish you couldve been in them. anyways i miss you && love youu soooo much
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Ambuяя Najilah Stewaяt-Botley>Kyle Strang: kyle,

man... 

i love you soo much, im definitely gonna miss you... way too much. in this short time, you have gained so much love and respect from me... i dont even know how to feel right now... ♥
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Ambuяя Najilah Stewaяt-Botley>Kyle Strang: kyle,
i met parents, little brother & the rest of your family last night. they were so nice... but it just sucks that they were under these circumstances. im still tryna process this info in my head but its still not registering. i've only known you for a short time, but in that short time we've spent sooooooo many days together. even the days you werent there i always asked about you. your hugs made my day. you were always hella excited and always smiling about only God knows what lol. im definitely gonna miss you alot. you we're part of my little friend family too. i dont have that many friends, but you were definitely one of them. i love you soooo much sweetheart. we'll never know why your time was cut sooo short. it just sucks thats all i know. you and prentice should be here right now. i should be on my way to kick it with you guys after school today. but im not, i cant. once again i love you kyle. your family is in my prayers and everyone else's. 
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Ambuяя Najilah Stewaяt-Botley>Kyle Strang: i miss kyleeeeee! 
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         Kyle Strang we need to go out and get some round table again taht was hella fun 
January 12 at 5:15pm
            


          
Ambuяя Najilah Stewaяt-Botley haha yeah, buh not in vallejo. we ca go on universityyy lol 
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Alex McKay's Wall-to-Wall with Kyle

Alex MacKay Kyle

, still can't believe this, I don't think anyone can. It almost doesn't seem real. As evidenced by the overwhelming outpouring of support, you were an extraordinarily friendly, respectful and loyal person. Such a wonderful person didn't deserve such an untimely end, we're all hurting for you. You'll be terribly missed by all, our thoughts and prayers are with you.

 May the road rise up to meet you
. May God hold you in the palm of His hand

. We'll never forget you, Kyle.

 See you in the next life my friend.

-Alex

April 3 at 12:03am · Comment · Like

Story about Kyle and the Homemade Cafe, written by Craig as part of a thank you note to his NMEA friends

This is an email I sent to some of my National Marine Educators Association friends around the country who chipped in to get Persis and me a couple of gift certificates to restaurants and made a contribution to the KHS Memorial Fund.

May 24, 2010

Dear, Diana, Thaxter, Lauren, Susan, Sylvia, Carmelina, Johnette, Justine and Lynn,

My good friend and former LHS colleague, Kim Seashore (great name, eh?), dropped off your wonderful gift yesterday. I'm so touched and appreciative. It's a wonderful offering, and it's things like this and people like you that keep us slogging forward through this darkest of times. Thanks to Kim, also. She's done so much for us.

Homemade Cafe, a Berkeley Institution, is one of our favorite haunts, about six blocks from our house. I started taking Kyle there (and to a couple other neighborhood places) for breakfast when he was still in a sling once a week in order to let his mom sleep in. When he was in pre-school, he'd ride there on my shoulders at least once a week before I dropped him off. We invented our favorite breakfast game there, "The Perfect Bite," later known as "The Monster Bite." We would have a competition to see who could get one little piece of everything from our plates, including condiments, piled up onto a fork or onto a corner of our toast and into our mouth without dropping anything. Fried egg, toast, potato, bacon, pancake, ketchup, syrup, jelly, butter, parsley, orange slice, hot sauce... When Kyle was big enough for his elbows to reach, we'd sit at the counter to watch the cook, who would always come over and flip a little something extra onto Kyle's plate. Kyle knew all the cooks and all the waitresses on all the shifts. Just about six months ago, he told me that he loved taking girls on morning dates to Homemade because he felt like such a bigshot there. All the waitresses would come over and say hello, ask him if he wanted his usual, and they'd always bring his date a piece of coffee cake and say, "...on the house, Mr. Strang." So, we'll go there this weekend and I'll pile up a Monster Bite for you all in memory of Kyle.

Persis and I will also send Niko to a friend and have a nice dinner at Pomegranate, our favorite Persian place that makes rice almost as good as Persis does. And your contribution to Kyle's Memorial Fund will help us to do something special for his friends at Berkeley High in the CAS program. We haven't decided yet exactly how to spend the money, but the teachers are committed to something that will both honor who Kyle was and provide support to his 2011 classmates to help them make it to graduation next year. We're thinking about a student trip somewhere (Israel/West Bank or New Orleans?) that will include service learning and address the concept of bringing groups together across boundaries. I will keep you all posted as we make decisions about that.

I'm still a bit of a mess here and my days are still filled with thoughts and activities related to Kyle, but I'm making it through day by day. Thanks for your kindness and support. It helps.

Craig

Erin's Wall-to-Wall with Kyle

   Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: I woke up with thoughts of you in my mind. I love you 
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    Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: I love you so much kyky. I miss you. You're the best 
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Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: Hey kyky. I love you. The sun is shining today, shining how you shine. It makes me miss you more than ever. its so weird without, and I still cannot adjust or fully accept it bc I really still wish it wasn't true. I know the sun is shining bright wherever you are. I love you so much 
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     Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: Hey kyky. I really miss you a lot. The sun is out today, are you smiling down on us? I love

              

     Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: i love you 
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Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: Hi my love. I miss you terribly. Not having you here is so lame, I hate it and it still feels unreal. I wish you were here, to simply sit and kick it with me. I love you with all my heart. Xoxo 
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      Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: I love you sweet kyky. We just went to t rex. Couldn't get the ribs without you, so I got salad and wings. Not as good, but I don't think it'll ever be. I love you and miss you so much. I hope you are getting a lot of bbq up there. ;o) 
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      Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: I love you kyky. I miss you. I made a bomb dinner last night bc sheila came over, wish you were there to eat it with us. We had a ton leftover, that's probably what you would have eaten. Wish you could have. Miss you and love you a lot. 
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           Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: I love you kyky. 
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Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: hi kyky. we all are really missing you a lot. it is really weird not having you around. I love you. 
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             Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: i love you very much 
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              Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: I love you Kyky. I am sad you were not able to be there tonight with your friends, and most importantly with Hannah. They all looked amazing. I bet you would have looked so handsome all dressed up. I would have made you get a pimp suit, like Gary's, like the one he let you wear to your mom's house for Christmas a two years ago :o) I wish you were still here. I miss you a lot. I love you. 
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                 Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: I love you kyky. Hannah and I just went shopping for a prom dress and she looks so beautiful ;o). We also just scarfed Zachary's and chocolate, and are about to watch a movie. I know you are with us in spirit. How could you not be? I love you and miss you so much. I wish you were doing this with us...
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Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: i love you kyky and i miss you. Auntie came over tonight and we had a yummy dinner. I wish you were here (and if you were I would have made steak instead of fish). ♥
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               Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: I love you kyky. Thank you for being in my life and for listening to me. I miss you 
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Gigi Hsiao Tsern Keep your heart and mind open (to signs)....xoxo
April 5 at 8:10pm
            


                              
Erin Lutsko I am, and waiting patiently. I love you Gigi. Thank you for knowing me so well and knowing what I am hoping for, and what this meant. You are my heart. Thank you for being you. 
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Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: I love you so much. I wish you were with me and jesse, hanging out on our couch, cuddling with Aggie. She misses you a lot too, and I am happy she got to sleep with you last weekend :o). I miss you so much. Thank you for being with us all this time, at our house, in my heart, texting us, everything. You spoiled me with your love and how straight up you were. I will never go to a movie theater and pig out on a billion types of candy without feeling like it is totally wrong to not have you with me. My love for you will never change, will never be replaced and will always be vibrant in my soul. You are the best cousin a girl could ask for. Love you love you love you love you love you loveyou 
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Sandi Lutsko Me too. I love you Ky Ky. 
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              Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: I love you kyky, a lot. I miss you so much and i feel so lucky that I got so much of you while you were here, in fact i feel spoiled. Thank you for loving me as much as you did. I will see you in my dreams, feel you in my heart and know you are with me each and everyday. I love you i love you...

And ya know what, you deserve the biggest card in the world ;o) 
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             Erin Lutsko>Kyle Strang: i texted you today... i am still waiting for a response. dinner tonight was amazing, you really missed out :o) I love you. get over here! 
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Kyle Strang hey sorry i dont think i got that message what did it say? have u seen the movie DR. parnassus's imaginarium?
February 24 at 8:23pm
            


                  
Erin Lutsko not yet. it is part of the movie watching plan. heard you hated it. after we see it, do you want to have a meeting to discuss? 
February 24 at 8:28pm
           

                  
Kyle Strang yess i would love that i didnt hate it i was just super confused and a little lost but it wasnt a terrible movie. when do i get to see you next? 
February 24 at 8:31pm
            


                  
Erin Lutsko whenever you want. jesse has a game tomorrow at 6:00, he'll be home around 7:30. want to come over for dinner? 
February 24 at 8:54pm
            


                  
Kyle Strang hey i will txt u later tonight or tomorow morning about it because someone stole the license plate off of my car so i cant drive it so i need to ask my dad to give me a ride. i have mma untill around 8 but could i come over around 8ish?
 February 24 at 8:58pm
            


                  Erin Lutsko that could work. i can give you a ride if you need it as well :o)
 February 24 at 9:00pm
            


       Kyle Strang ok sounds good let me text you in a little bit 
February 24 at 9:10pm