Today I attended a memorial service for one of my dear friends, David Rawson Jr. David and I sang together for four years at Tufts. I have so many memories of David, I don't even know where to start. I guess the beginning will suffice...
David and I first met in the dining hall during freshman orientation. I was eating with my [now] best friend, and he introduced himself and asked if he could join us. When I told this story to David for the first time he didn't remember our first encounter, but I did. David had a smile and a charm to him that was hard to forget. Then we ended up auditioning for Chamber Singers, and both got in, and thats where our real friendship started.
I really got to know David during our tours to Italy and Spain. In Italy we shared wine and home-made mozzarella, spent too much money on drinks, and watched a brawl start (and end) right by a restaurant we were eating at. In Italy, Diana and I taught David (as well as the other boys) how to meringue and salsa; we sang (without permission) in one of the biggest tourist attractions in Toledo, and bypassed groups of Americans waiting to get into clubs.
I know that all sounds a little frivolous, so I guess I'll just say that David was such an amazing person. Always positive, never spoke negatively about people, intelligent, caring, I really could go on. David's life on this earth ended too early, but his presence will be felt for a long time...
(me, David & Andrew)
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