hi, my name is jim bossi, and i am tony's uncle. i am so in disbelief about all of this. i do have to tell you a recent conversation i had with tony!

it was saturday night about 2:00 am. i was sitting on my front porch when tony pulled up,(we live across the street from each other.) i learned the most intrigueing lessons on life in an hour in a half that i never knew.

now here is the silly part of that evening. i felt something crawling on my leg, and i used the word formication (which i have used many times before in my life) everyone always told me i meant fornication. formication is what i knew to be ..the feelings of something crawling on you, and fornication (sex act). i knew what i meant, and so did tony....he said he heard of it. do you know the next morning (sunday) tony came over my house with a full definition of formication. this is why tony is so brilliant, because if he didn't know something, or knew it partially, he was never too lazy to look it up and learn. he was amazing.

i am not the most participating uncle in the world, but i love my whole family with all my heart!!! i will never ever forget tony, nor will i let anyone.......he was one of my favorites of all eight of my favorite nephews and neices!

i wish he could e-mail me from heaven, at least one time. he would know what to say, just to let me know it was him.

TONY, I LOVE YOU AND WILL MISS YOUVERY VERY MUCH, YOU ARE, AND WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY HEART! give grandma a hug for me!

by the way....i was always right about the word ( that there even is one, even though no one never believed me, but tony)FORMICATION!

LOVE YOU TONY! BYE FOR NOW!

Formication -

for·mi·ca·tion

n.

1. An abnormal sensation as of insects running over or into the skin, associated with cocaine intoxication or disease of the spinal cord and peripheral nerves.

2. An abnormal sensation resembling that made by insects creeping in or on the skin

3. Hallucinated sensation that insects or snakes are crawling over the skin