He just had friends coming out of his ears. He had the gift of gab. You'd meet him and be best friends with him an hour later. And it was genuine.

Our free relays were loaded.

Alexis had an unbelievable swim, with two seconds off her best time. It was the last individual event and we really needed her to step up and place higher than her seed and she did.

I tried to split our A and B relays equally so they could swim against each other and the B won in two out of the three relays.

We lost our Alan so senselessly. And we just don't understand it. I mean, this happens to other people. Now we lost our only brother and my parents lost their only son.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.