Michael Allen was a jokester he would always have you laughing, he was also a prankster as well. He always had that silly laugh. He came into my life when he was 12 years old he fought me hard tooth and nail and made sure that I knew he didn't want his daddy with no one after his last experience with his dad's last girl friend, but I let him know that I meant him no harm and that I was there to love him just as much. I earned his trust and I knew this when he started calling me Mom he would say Mom can you help me with my homework I have no idea what this means what is a box of whiskering plots I looked at him and I had not one clue but that day we learned it together. He was always back and forth from Georgia to Florida between his father's home and his biological mothers, we had a lot of memories over the years he even went with me on my honeymoon we stayed in a little bungalow off of cedar key I'll never forget the funny and enjoyable moments that we had. I love that boy as if he was my own. His father always showed him tough love because he didn't want him to go down the same path he had before he stressed this to him every chance he got, but Michael Allen was a stubborn child he was just like his dad in every way nothing could tell him any different. I will cherish the memories that I have of him the good the not so good like him throwing snakes on me sometimes he was always a little sneak always wanting to get a laugh he was my pain in the rear but I love him he was my son I'm sure that he has memories with a lot of people and I'm sure that he was loved by many,( love the ones that you have around now because you don't know what the future holds because they can change in an instant. And if you're a mother that has split up with the father or vice versa don't put down that other parent to child (ren) let the the child make its own choice stop putting down the other parent to your child stop playing the child back and forth with the other parent stop using your child as a pawn I've seen too much of it with this child Michael Allen and he wasn't happy about it he heard too much he said he shouldn't have heard from one of his parents keeping him from the other parent and he held that grudge whether that other parent knows it or not it affected him a lot a lot of people may think they know who Michael Allen really was but there's only a handful that got to see who he really was deep down because he covered up a lot that he didn't want a lot of people to see I was fortunate to know him personally because I was his parent stepparent but that doesn't make any difference at all, the moral of my story is I know Michael Allen very well and I know he would want me to say this life is too short stop holding grudges against one another stop using your children let your child be a child and make its own choices when it comes to loving who it wants to love don't brainwash the child into believing something that isn't true because you're upset with the other parent or because the parent pissed you off in some way from the past that's not how life is supposed to be lived. That's not how Michael Allen wanted to live the same way that he grew up he was living that with his own child and not being able to see her because of the same identical things. Michael Allen you will always be missed son I wish we would have had a lot more time.

I'll never forget you,You will always be in our hearts forever Son❤🖤