I first met KC...

I first met KC Mitchell early in the morning on July 30th, 2006. The San Francisco Marathon was running down our street, 27th avenue between California and Lake. My friends and I were cheering the runner on from my fire escape which served as a balcony. KC lived almost directly across the street. I remember looking across the street and seeing this beautiful woman with short blond hair and a brilliant smile sitting on a stool in her window watching the racers run by.

It took only a few minutes until she turned and looked at m friends and I. I can say I loved her from the first moment I saw her face. Anyone that has met or known KC has felt the warmth radiating from her eyes and the light from her smile.

Eventually we waved her over and she walked across the street and joined us. Such a happy impromptu party at 7:30 in the morning. I had made mimosas and had music playing and we were cheering the runners from my balcony, my old friends were there, and now my new friend and neighbor KC. I never ever expected thinking about this particular morning would make me cry. KC and I would tell each other this story fondly, and now that she is gone, her other friends tell me this story because KC had told them.

Eventually she invited me and my friends over to her apartment. It was a cute one bedroom on the first floor with a large window that overlooked the street. I was impressed by the amount of plants she had all in perfect health and tasteful pots. The I looked on the wall and saw it; KC's most impressive painting "Riding a motorcycle in the rain". It blew me a way. I can still see this painting in my mind: it had a lot of texture, either from plaster or bits glued to the canvas, most of the round, but some long and thin. The color was mainly grey, dark to light with a little bit of tan coming through on the edges of the texture shapes. The memory of it still haunts me, as it was always prominently hung wherever KC lived.

Eventually we began talking, I remember being so enamored of this woman with the short blond hair and shining brown eyes. It turned out that we bothed liked Adult Swim cartoons and especially The Venture Brothers cartoon. This is my very first email to KC

Hey KC,
   This is Geordie from across the street.  Had a great time at your place with all the espresso and stuff.
Looking forward to watching Venture Brothers and Adult Swimm with another fan..I'll give you a ring at 9:00
or so.  My phone is 221-0991.....................Geordie

 Coincidentally it is also one of my last emails to KC. The day after I last saw KC and had finally asked her to be my girlfriend I sent it again to her out of nostalgia for the day we began our friendship for we were now meant to begin a relationship together. This is what I sent on March 24, two days before KC left.

From:   piniped@gmail.com
Subject: Found it.
Date: March 24, 2012 2:38:08 PM PDT
To:   kc.mitchell@gmail.com

My very first email to you. We never did get around to watching the Venture Brothers together.............G!

Begin forwarded message:

From: Geordie Dylan Van Der Bosch <piniped@gmail.com>
Date: July 30, 2006 3:43:18 PM PDT
To: kc.mitchell@gmail.com
Subject: Venture Brothers

Hey KC,
   This is Geordie from across the street.  Had a great time at your place with all the espresso and stuff.
Looking forward to watching Venture Brothers and Adult Swimm with another fan..I'll give you a ring at 9:00
or so.  My phone is 221-0991.....................Geordie

I hope she knew what I meant when I sent it to her. I hope it made her think of that day in the summer of 2006 as fondly as I always will. I miss you KC. I miss you.