{"id":2168,"date":"2011-04-08T23:32:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2011-04-09T23:39:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T03:39:39","slug":"friday-night-saying-goodbye-to-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/04\/08\/friday-night-saying-goodbye-to-dylan\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night – saying goodbye to Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just came back from the hospital with Gabe and a couple of his friends. We went to say goodbye to Dylan.. His transplant surgery is scheduled for early tomorrow morning.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s so sad.. and so surreal to replay this story…<\/p>\n

One by one, we each filed in to say our final goodbye. When I was in there alone.. I knew it was Dylan’s body lying there in that bed.. but he’s really not there.. The machines are keeping his body alive.. but his spirit is already someplace else.\u00a0 Watching Gabe and Diane go in there was so had to watch for the memories it brought back, Dylan stepped in like almost a brother to Gabe after Sam died . Watching Gabe go through another loss like this is almost too much to bear.<\/p>\n

But there’s a different sadness entirely when my heart goes to Dylan and his family. Watching Jim go in there was so hard to watch for what comes now.\u00a0\u00a0 I swear I’m going to be there for Dylan’s family.. like so many of you all were there for us.<\/p>\n

Today, Fox 44 did a news story on Dylan.. they came out and interviewed Gabe for the piece..\u00a0\u00a0 Gabe’s comments really capture Dylan’s crazy\/fun spirit.<\/p>\n

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Dylan Peters, a senior at Champlain Valley Union High School, died Thursday in a car crash on Oak Hill Road in Williston, Vt.<\/span><\/pre>\n
Gabe Cohn smiles and laughs when he looks at pictures and recalls the time he spent with Peters, who was his best friend.<\/span><\/pre>\n
\"We always just goofed around like that and made fun of each other,\" Cohn said.<\/span><\/pre>\n
Peters was an avid snow boarder. He was  described by his friends as a daredevil. Cohn\u00a0and Peters would spend  hours practicing skate boarding tricks and jumping on the trampoline in  the backyard.<\/span><\/pre>\n
\"I hung out with him because he was the guy  who would jump off a cliff and do crazy stuff like that, and\u00a0I always  looked up to him,\" Cohn said.<\/span><\/pre>\n
And Cohn saw Peters as a clear role model. He had a full snow boarding scholarship to Westminster in Utah.<\/span><\/pre>\n
But in an instant everything changed. Peters  died Thursday\u00a0when his car went off the road and into several trees.  Police say speed played a big role in the accident.<\/span><\/pre>\n
\"There were skid marks, gouges in the roadway  and then the vehicle off the roadway in the grove of trees,\" Officer  Bill Charbonneau, of the Williston Police Department, said.<\/span><\/pre>\n
For Cohn, this isn't the first time he lost  someone close. He says Peters stepped in as an older brother when he  lost his own brother in 2006.<\/span><\/pre>\n
\"Once he left\u00a0I was like why is this  happening to me again, it's just horrible.\u00a0I can't even think, we had so  much planned. And he had so much good going for him,\"\u00a0Cohn said.<\/span><\/pre>\n
He says moving on will be hard but he will always remember Peters.<\/span><\/pre>\n
\"Every single time\u00a0I do something that we did  like jumping on my trampoline, I'll think of him and just know he's  there somehow with me, doing it with me,\" Cohn said.\r\n\r\n<\/span>We will never forget you, Dylan.  we love you...\r\nnite all, nite sam.. please take care of dylan...\r\n-me\r\n\r\n<\/object>\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just came back from the hospital with Gabe and a couple of his friends. We went to say goodbye to Dylan.. His transplant surgery is scheduled for early tomorrow morning.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s so sad.. and so surreal to replay this story… One by one, we each filed in to say our final goodbye. When I … Continue reading Friday night – saying goodbye to Dylan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dylan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}