Paul Walling Instagram – This weekend we said goodbye to my mom, Eddi M. Capo, who lost her battle with Alzheimer’s. On her last day, she told me, “This is definitely the best trip I’ve ever…,” and she laughed, not finishing the MadLib. I will miss that laugh and her smile (including the one she gave me when I accompanied her for a driver’s license renewal in the first picture), her inner child (the one who took me to see Pee-wee’s Big Adventure on opening night — and then again the next night, because we were both obsessed with Large Marge), her love of weddings (she had five of her own, including to my dad, and we were all so happy that she finally achieved her “personal best” with John, the love of her life who was by her side to the end.) She was a lifelong friend to the marginalized, particularly people who were homeless or discriminated against, and she had zero tolerance for bigotry and didn’t believe there was an “other side of the tracks.” She was mother to Jeffrey (who we lost to AIDS in 1995), Mick, Stephanie, and me; a stepmother to John’s kids; grandmother to Kristy, Jennifer, Rachel, Adam, Amber, Dakota, and Paige; a great-grandmother to Tony, Alexis, and Destiny; and a great-great-grandmother. She was once a tire model, as you can see. Unsurprisingly, she didn’t bat an eyelash when I told her I was a spokesman for pube trimmers. [caption continued in comments] Florida