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Melissa Thatcher Howell, Sister

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Anyone who knows Aaron well is very familiar with his kindnes, his love for people.  He also has a fiercely competitive side.  I remember while he was attending BYU he took a girl out on a date bowling.  Much to his horror she beat him.  I'm sure that he was very nice to her while he was loosing, but he was never going to let that happen ever again.  The next semester he signed up for a bowling class at BYU.
I know that I've already shared, but stories and thoughts about Aaron keep coming to me.  Some of them funny stories and others sweet.  One of them that had me laughing was an experience we had driving through Colorado.  Alison has already mentioned some of the trips that the three of us took together, but she forgot to tell of Aaron's favorite thing to do while driving through the big tunnels in the Colorado Rockies.  Aaron had me drive slowly and so that there were no cars ahead of us and then he would light a bottle rocket and we would watch it shoot down the tunnel ahead of us.  And mom thought that we were mature enough to go on trips across the country. 

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  1. The ThatchersMarch 21, 2015 at 7:32 AM

    Great entry. And the truth is Aaron put more effort into that bowling class than any other he took at BYU. He had to conquer that game. Defeat was not an option.
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