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A day i never thought id have to do... here is a video I made in honor of my sister .... 
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What truly happened to Codie …
2023, Ocala, FL, USA
What truly happened to Codie in the house in Silver Springs Fl, among, the on-and off fiancée and four others? — with Codie Novack
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While our family is not only grieving the loss of our daughter Codie, a sister, an aunt, and our everyday moments, but also bearing the additional process of making the calls, utilizing additional officials, viewing and compiling evidence for some sort of justice, in what only seems to be an unjust world, as opposed to law enforcement, a detective, and medical examiner who are supposedly trained to recognize but fails to do their diligence to protect the unsuspecting … only adds to our compounding grief… We will not stop fighting for accountability!!
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I am not even sure where to start. We mourn you, every day but what day is really the day you were taken from us? We may have narrowed the day down, but we really don’t have the answers... The day you walked out the front door on January 3, 2023, not knowing it would be the last time and your family reported you missing or in danger, throughout the time, we learned you were recovered by emergency services on January 5, 2023, among five others, with no real-time of death.

I expected we would be farther. I expected so much of the wrongs to be right. I expected there to be an investigation into the circumstances, and those in a position of authority to do much more than nothing. My eyes have been opened to another world. I didn’t expect the criminal records of others, the danger of the world, or the ugliness that we have seen through this.

So much has changed, but really hasn’t at the same time. Summer, Fall, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's, all have come and gone. We do have your birthday to follow in a couple of days. Civil court for the personal property damage during the altercation.

All the days just seemed forced, lonely, and sad. Even the small bits that we share as a family dwindled. You are missing every moment. Many days are a blur of files, paperwork, investigation, and phone calls.

We still have so many questions, without answers, and are waiting for results and continued justice. Sad, Numbed, Angry, As hard as we try, we live within a strange life, a life unlike and unknown to us.

#SeekingJusticeForCo, #lilbitchtakentosoon, #MCSO, #MarionCountyFlorida,

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Codie... today is one year sense you were taken from us. We are still here trying to find you justice for what that idiot had did but don't worry it will catch up to him, soon he will be drowning in his own missory knowing that he has done wrong  and won't get away with it.   We love and miss you so much Codie 💗  this world is never gonna be the same without you ... forever sisters...  I love you 

I know you are missed by many...

Their life may go on...

I can't say that for me...

As I will be holding on...

I love and miss you more...

For I can not define it...

What was my heart retains a hole

Endless searching throughout my soul.."Ohanna"

I go through a daily rewind of the day and how I was told of what happened to you... Every word, motion, and action, and now what we have been learning...

I am thankful our family speaks and says the “I love yous” and hugs as much as we do... even if we have been mad at one another at times... that is one rule in our family, it is always, never hang up or leave without it... "We each can be mad or disagree but never forget the love we have for each other"...

But just wish we knew that this day; in just a few short hours it would be the end of our world as we knew it... We would have stopped you from going out the door that day... made up something, kept you here longer, sent you somewhere, to keep you away from the ugly, away from whatever you went through... being taken, leaving this enormous hole. We miss everything about you... the things, you said, did, and the things we did together (good bad, and ugly) … as you have said and believed in…. “Ohanna” …. So do we…

Just getting through the daily reminders of a beautiful person and soul, who gave more than she received... the empty chair at the dining room table at each meal, music playing through the house, the car pulling in and out of the driveway; as it sits here, hearing her call out momma, from another room, karaoke nights as a family, lunch, and nail trips with your sister or shopping trips to the store with your siblings; picking up each of your guys favorites snacks, food or needed items... I don't want to let go but hold on to every bit of memory. Knowing there won't be any future ones... let alone the firsts we won't have with her, any beach trips, birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or every other damn celebration, her wedding with the right person... it is a struggle. Bittersweet we don't have grandchildren, but right now it is probably for the best... I Didn't watch her have or cherish those special feelings and moments of children or watch them grow or share with them how beautiful their momma is and all she could have offered the world... I am not tied to any monsters, fighting for them, their safety and it does seem to be an ugly world right now... Finding myself filled with a bit of hurt and hate at times and seems to be growing. (many times, I don't really understand) I don't have to explain to any babies what happened, but we also do not have the options... 

I know you are missed by many... and their life may go on...but I can't say that for me... I will be holding on...  I love and miss you more than I can explain, my heart has a hole, and endless searching goes on throughout my soul... "Ohanna" 

Codie... It is going on 8 months.. still can't not gather the thoughts that you are gone.. I miss you like crazy... my birthday is coming up and it will be the first without you... I miss you so much. I really wish I could have the powers to change where you are at... if I could i would switch u and the person who did this to you.... a monster like that does not deserve to be on this earth. I wish you could be here so much... I can't wait till the day we meet again... we just have keep on keeping on... just like u said. And don't worry with everything that we have dug up we will get you justice soon.. we are never gonna give up....I love you so much codie.... sisters forever 💓 

I truly can not understand the ugliness of people, and of any of this... or what I now see as shit and the world we live in... since you have been taken from us...what I can not comprehend, even seems so much more senseless ... I am sure (not the only one,) that is confused and lost without you. You are missed and loved more than I can even understand. Living every day without you is bittersweet, sensing you with us but remembering, every moment, we are missing someone with us; while we listen to music, watch tv, or the next new movie. While we try to do a family event or outing. While we try to have dinner but have an empty chair at our dinner table.  It will be hard at the moment to celebrate your birthday or the first holidays after.., There will not be your future wedding with the right guy, or any grandchildren. We will not have any future milestones or celebrate you other than "that date".. that date ... again... that date... 

I don't know how to believe in the process that many speak about; Whether it be - God only takes the good, at least you are not suffering, you are in a better place or you may be at peace; When 1. you didn't cause the problem,  2. you didn't ask to be taken, and 3. you didn't ask to leave the ones who truly loved you...... I do believe people have choices...  

I love and miss you Codie ... As I have always told you throughout life...I will with every breath and oz of my being find answers.....

I should have written before this, however, we have been waiting for further testing and information with our daughter Codie Counterman. I have been more lost than I ever have been. It has not been getting easier, as I am getting more questions than answers. I am completely lost. Hell, every day is harder. I know how we always kept everyone in check, but don’t understand how hard it is to be missing one when everyone is still here. All we want is answers to understand!

I am mad at myself for not talking, pushing, or understanding the situation better, Louis, as we found, through many sources, disrespected, hit, strangled, and assaulted you on many occasions. You hid it very well. You always seemed to find excuses, blame yourself, or never go around people who knew. You didn’t take advice from yourself or anyone who tried to help. He always questioned your loyalty, but you gave him more loyalty than you gave yourself. I will live with his last words, spoken to your sister and I, with no remorse, no emotion, when I asked him where you were or what was going on and he said “She’s on an autopsy table. Law enforcement says they cannot investigate; they predetermined you as an overdose with the house, history of drugs, overdoses, and people with a long list of criminal records as witnesses; they don’t have a victim who can talk; that could have left or called 911; the Medical Examiner cannot state how long you may have laid there with four to six other people, in the house, who said they saw, heard, knew nothing, with bruises, cuts, abrasions, bite mark, and superficial marks. She felt they didn’t lead to your death, and the only thing revealed in the post-blood testing work is ethanol. I now am starting to understand your feeling when you have said many times “no one is listening “or you felt you were not being heard. Even as I felt you didn’t hear anybody about being with Louis and the many red flags he showed. Not that I ever pictured it leading to this, Never thought you would be gone!

I feel you should not have been in that house or been in the emotional, mental, and physical state as your messages, text, and pictures show while in the on-and-off relationship. Along with the details of your final message, you stated, “u aren’t sorry for shit” You thought you could be a good influence, you could change him; you could make him better, you could give him better than he has had, however, all he did was take from you, take from us and take from the world... your family will now have to start planning your funeral services, yet we don't know that anyone will ever be held responsible for what we have learned you have gone through and learn how to live this new way of life without you and what you would have offered the world. Like the story he has been feeding you about how bad his life is…you will become part of his story. But now he gets to add a new chapter as he moves on to the next one. He is not the one planning a memorial service for you, holding onto every detail of your life, your personality, or what you had to offer this world ... He will be alive, maybe pretending to have loved and cared for you or at least the things you did for him. Maybe he will remove your pictures and act like he didn’t know you; like he has done with the long list before you? Either way, He gets to see, visit, and call his family, and friends. He gets to live life, continue smoking his pot or whatever drugs, drinking daily, playing in the Xbox game world, and continuing to take from others as he seems to have a history of doing with many. He continues to make excuses as to why he is the way he is, and someone again will come along and do the same as you or as we learned the ones before you...

Just know I don’t wish him dead. I will upon him to receive the same treatment, that I am learning the depths and seeing through the saved messages, pictures, and recorded calls, I have now understood what he put you through… He gets to just breathe…….

As heartbreaking as this is for our family daily, maybe others going through emotional, mental, or physical abuse, and the idea that they love you (love does not hurt or leave bruises), or it is going to get better (Not by controlling you or others around you), or you think you can change someone (Only they can change themselves or their behaviors) will see through the behavior of another before their family is baring the same questions or heartache we are. He will move on as he has done so many times before, block, remove, or take down whatever memories. He will have new friends, family, and others to take advantage of, but there is one thing he didn’t take into consideration... this mama! I will kindly show or remind anyone who needs to see any proof of the damage he is capable of! Don’t give me, you saw nothing, you heard nothing, you know nothing when he couldn’t leave you out of his sight!! There is so much more that has not been revealed here!!

I really pray anyone who is in a similar situation takes a better look at their situation, leans on someone, Seeks help, or please gets out... please look at what the red flags are, Please know it can happen to you also, Please don’t let your family have the same questions, heartache, loss, and leave them to bury you...

Thank you to the friends who keep checking in on us, the doctors, and the law enforcement officers that offered all the advice and help, during our time of completely crushing loss, confusion, and heartbreak, it will never be forgotten...

I am sorry if you don’t agree, so many love and miss you, even if you don’t believe it, but this is all we have and can see. We really need help to move forward with an understanding and what the positive comes out of losing you in such an ugly way... your family and friends love and miss you more than you realize or that we are trying to handle...

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Codie, it has been a very long 60 days sense you were taken away from us...how are we suppose to go on without you here. You were my rock..i am gonna miss our text ( like the one below) with us just goofing off ) im gonna miss your "white girl" personality, our wawa coffee runs, the afternoons we would just sit by the pool, or the days we spent Al Counterman money on little things but totaled alot $$ wise ( that we were not expecting ...oops! ) or even going to the beach when ever we could get there..Def will not be the same without you here. .I know we fought ( especially recently ) but it was all over dumb people and now i just wish you can see what we were talking about, and I know I said some stuff that hurt you but it also hurt me... if i could i would take back all the words that i said that hurt you... I don't want you to be gone codie. You should still be here. love you so f**cking much... can you please just come walk through that door already...we are waiting... 
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Take a moment..and understand what Ohana means.. and why Codie really believed in it.. the article says a lot.. The Real Meaning of Ohana ...       https://hawaiianplanner.com/discover/information/details/the-real-meaning-of-ohana-in-hawaiian-families   
Codie doing the thing she lov…
2022
Codie doing the thing she loved with A.J.... riding the motorcycle — with Albert ( AJ ) counterman
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I still can’t believe your gone you weren’t supposed to go like this we were supposed to go out with a bang I miss you every day and it sucks you were my best friend my sister my wifey as we joked and I miss you so damn much every time I think bout you I break down in tears I miss you and hope your enjoying your time up there watching over us all my prayers are with mom and dad and everyone wish you were here still your time was cut too short until we meet again 

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