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A Randolph family was devastated when they lost their beloved brother, son and friend. The cell phone he left behind containing photos and videos was all they had left to remember him by, until it was taken from them recently.
Patrick Galette, 26, died just before Christmas last year in the midst of a severe asthma attack.
"There wasn't enough time for the ambulance and he was basically falling in my arms," said his sister Ashley.
Galette left behind grieving family and friends. And something that turned out to be of exquisite importance, his phone.
"There were irreplaceable videos and pictures on there and for a mother to lose her child is hard enough," said his friend Stephanie Nye.
For the past six months, the photos and videos on Patrick's phone have sustained those who miss him. But now, the phone is gone. It went missing last Monday. Patrick's mother was at a function when she put the cell phone down. Multiple announcements that it was lost were made but nobody turned it in.
The phone may have been stolen, or picked up inadvertently. Those details matter less to the family than getting it back.
Because cell phones sometimes are more than circuits connected to memory, sometimes they are memory itself. And the last connection to a loved one.
