Christopher Newton Obituary, Death Cause – The information that your biological “father” has passed away may cause you to feel pretty odd, and it may even bring on emotions of melancholy that you were not expecting.
When I woke up this morning, they were most definitely not the feelings that I was expecting to have, nor was the experience that I had planned on having any part of it at all. Only in the biological sense could he be considered my father, and the last time I saw him was when I was approximately four years old, which is somewhere in the neighborhood of forty years ago.
Because of this, while I am sitting here and consciously thinking about it or him, I am genuinely experiencing a sense of gratitude for the two things that he did for me during the course of his life… here’s the obvious one, which is his part in bringing me into this world, but there’s also the less obvious one. AND, second, his choice to stand aside (for whatever reason, and one that I will never know now) in order to create way for my “dad” in EVERY sense of the word and the BEST that I could have ever dreamt for, to move forward and step in. He did this in order to make room for my “dad” to go forward and step in.
I guess the only thing left to say is… rest in peace To provide his full name, Christopher Newton… A smile and a lifted glass are offered in your direction as I propose a toast. It is very bad that you did not get the chance to catch up with me one more time before you left, since I am certain that you would have enjoyed the new version of myself very much.
