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……………………Today, May 5th is my sweetheart Jac’s birthday…..She loved that her birthday was on Cinco de Mayo….a happy holiday!……..I chose this picture, because this is exactly how she looked the very first time I met her…….She was just seventeen…….a baby!…….Without makeup she looked like she was twelve….She had peaches and cream skin, corn silk blond hair, and “eyes as blue as the sky”, as her Mom always said…She had a soft beautiful voice that was just perfect…..She was 5’10” and 1/4 as she always liked to add the 1/4 inch….A true statuesque beauty with the most gorgeous legs…..She had natural grace and moved beautifully…..She was the sweetest and kindest person I ever knew…..The day I met her I actually talked to her by chance. Of course I knew her as one of the beautiful models we booked for our shows, but I really didn’t KNOW her….Jac and two other models were booked to do our showroom, which means they would be there the two weeks the buyers came in to write their orders, and model the clothes for the clients…..One evening about 7:00 or so, I needed to get out of my studio where I had been cooped up the entire day. I knew everyone would have gone home by now so I could walk around freely, and enjoy my cigarette….Yes, in those days I smoked…….I happened to walk into the models room and Jac was sitting by herself. All the other models had left, and Jac had just finished showing to the last customer of the day. She looked startled when I walked in…I said…”Hello…you’re Jac aren’t you?”….she shyly said “yes”….I thought she was adorable, and we started to talk and talk and talk. Before you knew it almost two hours went by, and I was starting to be missed, and knew I had to get back to work…She said she had to leave too. I later found out she missed two trains to Larchmont where she lived, and where her mother was waiting to pick her up at the station…..just so she could keep talking to me!….From that evening on we became friends….I made it my business for the rest of market week to stop into the model’s room and say HELLO….Jac eventually moved into the city when she became 18 or 19, and lived two blocks from me…..We went out for dinner and to movies, and clubs, but mostly in a group….She was still a child to me , and not even legal yet…so I knew better, and kept a distance…However, she had no trouble getting into clubs. They always wanted the beautiful models to come in………As she got older and more mature….I started to look at her differently….She wasn’t a baby anymore, and she, in her own way, let me know it…..Eventually we started to seriously date, and I stopped seeing other people….That’s when she confessed to me that the minute she saw me, and spoke to me that evening in the model’s room….for her….”it was love at first sight”…She remembered exactly what I was wearing….my blue chambray shirt with the sleeves rolled up and khaki pants….She said I kept brushing my hair off my face, because it was long and always falling….She thought that was so cute…..It took me longer to have those kinds of feelings for her….Her age had a lot to do with it, but she was patient until I came around…..and when I did…that was it…..We moved in together in 1984, and were always together from then on….until that devastating day six years ago when she passed away…….I know NO ONE will ever love me more than my Jac…..She truly taught me the meaning of loving………..It’s so unfair that she had to leave me at such a young age…when there was still so much we wanted to do together……I miss her every day, and I’ll  miss her until my dying day…..when we will be together again……………………………….HAPPY BIRTHDAY in HEAVEN my ANGEL…………………………………………I LOVE YOU BABY, OVER THE MOON AND BEYOND THE STARS