I really don't know what to put as the biggest impacts in my life. I have been fortunate enough to have not lost a family member that I was real close to, but I have lost a LOT of animals over the years and that has really made a difference in my life. The animal I miss the most was my dog Monzaya. She was a collie and I had had her since I was 7 years old-she died when I was 17 so that would have made her 10.. That was 4 years ago now, but I still think about her a lot. I have a picture of her and me together when I was about 10 and she must have been about 3. I keep it on my night stand near my bed.