This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Shawn Rego who was born in Massachusetts on May 29, 1990 and moved with the family to the Finger Lakes in New York and passed away on March 22, 2006 at the age of 15  - two months befor his 16th birthday. We will remember him forever. 
He loved fishing (fresh water & salt water) he even caught a couple of "sharks"
He loved playing basketball , and was a wiz on video games ~ he used to conquer almost everyone in less than 24 hours ~ just a very few were a little longer

Shawn loved EVERYONE ~ and if you were his girlfriend = YOU meant the world to him. He really loved EACH of his girlfriends (had a few).
He loved his girlfriend Laurene ("Rene") ~ they had spoke of marriage , having kids , ect ... It was "True Love" ..... at least for Shawn

My sister Donaway is here with me now

http://donaway-rego.memory-of.com/

He loved collecting knives and swords ~ even showing them off (in public) ~ that was a funny story
Shawn loved Comedy - either live comedians or movies but especially songs

 I will post more pictures of Shawn -- if I can find some more
IF YOU HAVE ANY PICTURES -- that are not here of Shawn
PLEASE ADD THEM ~~ I can not get ANY future pictures of Shawn
so I would LOVE to have ANY pictures of him


NO parent should ever out live their children

                     PLEASE JUST LET ME CRY 

                     Please don't ask me 
                       if I am over it yet.
   Please don't tell me that I should be over it
                       I'll NEVER be over it
   Please don't tell me he is in a better place.
                 He isn't here with me !!!!!!
           He didn't give himself a chance to
  experience all the joys this life has to offer .
         Please don't say he isn't suffering.
             I haven't come to terms with
       why he would have to suffer at all.
                   Please don't tell me
                  YOU know how I feel,
             unless you have lost a child. 
         Please don't ask me if I feel better.
             Bereavement isn't a condition
                       that clears up.
                  Please don't tell me
      at least you had him for many years.
       What date would YOU choose for
                  YOUR child to die ?
Calculate 15 years, 9 months, and 21 days
            from the date your child's birth
         Is that long enough for YOU ????
            Please don't tell me God never
           gives us more than we can bear.
      Please just tell me that you are sorry.
           Please just say you remember
               my son Shawn, if you do.
              PLEASE mention his name
                  Because he DID exist
    and he was very much loved & wanted.
        Please just let me cry ~ PLEASE !!!

1st real poem written ... 29 weeks & 6 days
4:20am

The pain I feel inside is so very deep
Hour after hour, day after day all I do is weep
All I want is to be with you again
I want to be your Mom and your friend
Shawn I want to look into your gorgeous blue eyes
After you took your life ... you left us all with too many whys
Thank you for the precious gift you still give me
I will always love you for all eternity
I can't believe I still live day by day
When I could be with you ... only a breath away
If you were hurting inside I AM so sorry
Sorry I didn't see the troubles you may have had
YOU were so wonderful even though YOU thought you were bad
I have prayed never to wake when I go to bed
I have planned suicide so many different ways in my head
I never thought I'd ever have the pain that I do
I am so devasted living another day without you
I begged God & doctors for your life to be saved
I never thought I would ever even see your grave
My heart feels like it has been ripped out of my chest
My heart got buried with you when I laid you down to rest
YOU are MY one and only son, my Beloved son, the very BEST
Love Mommy
LUV MOM




when I read this poem below I cried because I felt as if Shawn could have wrote it ... He would
 

Dear Mr. Hallmark
(Author Unknown)
Dear Mr. Hallmark,

I am writing to you from heaven, and though it must appear
A rather strange idea, I see everything from here.
I just popped in to visit your stores to find a card
A card of love for my mother, as this day for her is hard.

There must be some mistake I thought, every card you could imagine
Except I could not find a card, from a child who lives in heaven.
She is still a mother too, no matter where I reside
I had to leave, she understands, but oh the tears she's cried.
I thought that if I wrote you, that you would come to know
That though I live in heaven now, I still love my mother so.

She talks with me, and dreams with me; we still share laughter too,
Memories our way of speaking now, would you see what you could do?
My mother carries me in her heart, her tears she hides from sight.
She writes poems to honor me, sometimes far into the night
She plants flowers in my garden, there my living memory dwells
She writes to other grieving parents, trying to ease their pain as well.

So you see Mr. Hallmark, though I no longer live on earth
I must find a way, to remind her of her wondrous worth
She needs to be honored, and remembered too
Just as the children of earth will do.

Thank you Mr. Hallmark, I know you'll do your best
I have done all I can do; to you I'll leave the rest.
Find a way to tell her, how much she means to me
Until I can do it for myself, when she joins me in eternity.

Peace and Love be with you, 



If Shawn wrote me a letter from the afterlife I believe this would be 
what he would say :

Mommy why do you hurt so bad - you know I give you signs to let  you know there is an afterlife. It is Wonderful here . . . if you are hurting so bad and you want to be with me, what are you waiting  for? There is no weather, and you can explore not just other parts  of the world (without money) you can explore the Universe. 
Mom you have no idea how awesome it is. In the beginning yes I felt lost when I arrived because i really didn't know anyone that passed  away, but now Matt is here too and he has alot of his family. Oh I  know Auntie Angel now, you are right she is a wonderful girl, now I know why you used to cry when you would go to her grave. She has a grandfather here so I guess in someway we are related. 
Oh Age . . . we do get older but our face and our bodies stay the age  they were. I know you wondered if since Auntie Angel died at 13 and I never met her on earth and I died when I was 15 - who would be older? So she is older but she still looks like the pictures you have, so when I met her I knew who she was.
Mom it is just a test to be on earth - that is why it is so hard there but no matter what you have done - right or wrong ~~ you just get a different type of job (that is the best way I can describe it).
Me - I have to help the younger or newer ones. I do like it.
 And time is very different too because we don't have days & nights so when you say NO-DAYS, you are exactly right because we can see earth and know you are on Monday or whatever but there is no "days" - we don't sleep because we are not human anymore so our body doesn't need to recooperate, but if someone (new) has given us a difficult time we can rest (sorta) after. So Mommy I do see you cry alot at night or alone. You should just be with me and YOU would be happy but I do understand that you wouldn't do that to my "sister" 
(edited)
I am glad you can remember some of our good times on earth together and I am happy that one of your memories is two days befor when I told you "I love YOU", and when I was born - you were very happy then too. Hey Mom have I told you I LOVE YOU ?
And I will still send you signs to let you know I STILL love you and I am looking forward to you being here too.
Love, Shawn

I think Shawn would not answer WHY  because I believe he really did not want to die, and I think he just went into the "tunnel vision" and couldn't answer why. But I think he would just answer some  of my questions.



PLEASE light a candle for Shawn to show YOU care / it is FREE
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