Memory submitted by Hunter McCreary

When did you meet Mickey?
1990

Where did you meet him?
Mickey was my godfather and very special to my family.

Memory of Mickey
When I was very little, Mickey taught me how to talk like Donald Duck. When I was in an interview trying to get accepted to a school, the interviewer came out and asked my parents if I always talked like Donald Duck? Turns out I had decided I didn’t like that school and decided to get out of it by doing the whole interview like Donald Duck.

He was always Uncle Mickey to me my entire childhood. He taught me how to blow bubbles with bubble gum, catch frogs with a pan, and always asked me how college was going, even when I was in middle school.

I remember him sitting outside on the front steps of the office building, smoking a cigarette, and asking me all kinds of questions about my life and school.

I loved him very much, and he was there for me recently during a difficult period in my life. He has always been there, and the world already seems a little less bright.