“The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
~ James Patterson ~
This bittersweet and powerful Netflix Famous Last Words interview of Eric Dane, featuring a final message to his daughters, was meant to be released and aired after his passing from a battle with ALS.
Well?
Sadly, he did, indeed, pass today.
Ugh.
Look, if you know anything about me by now, you know that I’m a ball of sometimes extremely polarizing emotions that I wear out loud and either proud or not so proud on my sleeves.
And if you know me even better than well, then you know that while it doesn’t take much to bring tears to my eyes—especially when it comes to tender, sweet, and bittersweet moments involving my children and animals—getting me to cry tears of actual pain and suffering is becoming harder and harder as the days pass by.
Perhaps I’m not even alive anymore and I’m just a vagabond soul with a disheveled shell and really questionable, err, “outfits.”
These “famous last words,” however, literally wrench my soul. It took me all of about 120 milliseconds to drop them here in the Diary—which is, by the way, nothing more or less than a virtual love letter to my babies … and their babies … and their babies.
I’m not gonna lie: I never watched the show he was on, wasn’t a fan because I didn’t know his work, and didn’t know a thing about him.
Lol.
I was “yesterday years old” when I realized he was that “Dr. McSteamy” I’ve oft heard about from other women.
What I do know, however, is that he was a husband and a father, and these final words to HIS babies are impeccable.
Godspeed.
