Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:03
#SwellSessionsLA So I love this person a lot but they’ll probably never know just how much!
Anyway, I hope this inspires people, and never too late to tell somebody how much you love them. It could be your mailman, whatever. Sometimes we have the craziest feelings, but it's great to be able to find words for them. So I hope, Larry, if you're listening, you feel it
Joshua Prince
@joshy · 4:48
And also because we did things together, we began to look at our bucket list. So she had things on the bucket list that I had. For example, I didn't know how to swim. I still don't know how to swim, even though I'm kind of taking classes right now. And she didn't know how to swim. So we said, okay, that's one of the things on our bucket list. We have to learn how to swim
Joshua Prince
@joshy · 5:00
So I asked what happened? And they told me, and they asked me if I knew anything about her swimming. And right there, my heart sunk. And I asked them what happened again. And they told me that she went swimming in her apartment pool and she got drowned. And all the time I was trying to reach out to her and I couldn't reach out to her, and I couldn't get to her. And she wasn't responding
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Joshua Prince
@joshy · 3:32
I'm here for you. I love you. Saying that can make a difference because that might be the last thing they ever got to hear you. And this is my story. Thank you for listening
Eric Owens
@EricG · 2:42
I never did subscribe to that needy BS, which started back in the think that's a bunch of nonsense, telling someone that it's wrong to show affection. Yeah, whatever. Anyway, I've always been a very compassionate, affectionate person. All my life. I was raised to pretty much love your family members, love your spouse, love your pet. I was just raised that way. I always tell my pets I love them. I tell my spouse
Joshua Prince
@joshy · 1:53
It was so amazing because at the end of the day, it was those who were important to him that were around him when he was passing on. And for me, that was more beautiful than any other thing that probably he could have experienced in life. Because at the end of the day, his family were there for him at the last moment of his life
Natalia L.
@StoriesInLA · 3:43
It. Oh, my gosh. Joshua, this is Natalia. I think we briefly met at the January 31 event, and I listened to all three parts of your story now, and I felt like I was watching a miniseries that was adapted from a book. So it was really, oh, my gosh, really sad. And the message is so beautiful. Thank you. I'm getting, like, tears in my eyes thinking about it, but thank you for sharing it with us
Natalia L.
@StoriesInLA · 4:55
And then some of my neighbors. I know all my neighbors were buddies. Like, we're walking buddies or hangout buddies bring each other things when we're sick. So I'm like, okay, I'll just get a big bouquet of some flowers that are not $70 for Valentine's Day and divide them up and give them to these people tomorrow. So I'm in the flower section, and then this woman comes to the flower section, and she's doing the same thing I'm doing
Natalia L.
@StoriesInLA · 0:24
Oh, my gosh. I forgot something. I meant to say before that. She said, I want to tell you something in case you don't have a valentine tomorrow. And if nobody else tells you this tomorrow, happy Valentine's Day. And it was so sweet. It was so sweet