july 27th

Gord Downie died from glioblastoma a few months before Dan was diagnosed with his brain tumour. Since then anytime I hear a song by the Tragically Hip I immediately change it. There was awhile I felt like every single article, news segment and station was playing only Gord Downie. As a Tragically Hip fan this was V annoying! The other night I was listening to music and a Tragically Hip song came on. I reached to change it then stopped and thought, ‘this is ridiculous you can handle listening to this’. As I listened I clearly remembered a night that I hadn’t thought of in years (I think my brain knows not to bring up Gord at this point). The night Dan first told me he loved me. It was September 3, 2013 and we went to an outdoor Tragically Hip concert at Shaw Millennial park. It poured the entire concert and it was the most fun night ever. When we got back to his place I asked him, “so what’s going on with us”? He looked at me so surprised and said “I think I’m falling in love with you” then paused... “that’s not true, I am in love with you”. I always considered that our anniversary but since Dan always claimed we began dating 6 months earlier we settled on July 27th. Our favourite month and our favourite number ♥️