March 17, 2004

Robin Klein was simply the love of my lifetime. She died on Saturday morning March 6, 2004 at 3:18 AM from breast cancer in room 5804 at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, CA. She was 43. She is survived by her adoring and loving parents Milton and Jane, and her beloved sister, Heidi.

I wanted to create a memorial page for Robin because so much of who I really am I owe to her and my 21 year relationship with her. I would like to thank God for the gifts she has given me and the beauty and brilliance she has brought to this universe in 43 short years. I hope that my memorial page to her will be a small tribute to the statues that were probably built for her or in her likeness over the centuries.

Robin grew up in Cleveland Ohio a simply beautiful and well behaved child that was never sick and always beautiful and kind and just enjoyed doing plays and musicals in school and community theatre and even doing shows in her house with her friends. When other kids were smoking and getting high and going to concerts Robin was in dance class or studying theatre at the Heights Youth Theatre.

In September of 1978 Robin arrived to California to attend college at Pepperdine University and coincidentally I also moved to Los Angeles that same week from New York to pursue a development deal with Norman Lears TAT Production company. We met five years later in 1983 at the Comedy Store in Hollywood and for the next eight years she was my girlfriend and we spent most of that time in love and inseperable until our engagement broke off in 1991. For the last 13 years she has been the most beloved friend and human being in my life. Nobody else came in a close second. She was my family and she meant everything to me.

Robin was the most beautiful of all Gods creations. She was 5’6” 103-105lbs her entire adult life. She had no vices and lived a clean wholesome and beautiful life where she made all of her own choices and more importantly she took responsibility for whatever those choices were. Fortunately for Robin she was always right about everything. She was as brilliant as she was beautiful.

She was also courageous and brave as hell. She battled breast cancer for nine years and never complained or victimized herself or did anything other than live life as she only knew how to live it which is to its fullest and highest and most positive possibilities every single day. She looked at her cancer and her treatments and tests and hair loss and all of the horror that goes with cancer as nothing more than a minor inconvenience and would not allow it to diminish the quality of her life until it finally overcame her in the last month of her illness. She passed with grace and dignity peacefully and painlessly when no one was watching because like her treatments and tests that she went through, she wanted to do it by herself and not bother anyone. That’s the way she was, that is what defined her, class. She was always putting others before herself. That’s what class is, and that’s what she was.

As an actress, dancer, model and singer, Robin appeared on “Bosom Buddies”, “Dance Fever”, “Taxi”, “Once Bitten”, “Stripes”, “West Side Story” (Maria) with Patrick Swayze. “The Young and the Restless”, “Dallas”, “Happy Days”, etc. etc. also TV commercials. Later, Robin became involved in feature film casting with her sister Heidi and also film production with Larry Kasanoff where Robin was casting “Food Fight” and producing “Dirty Fairytale” in collaboration with Threshold Productions prior to her passing. Robin also received a Law Degree from West Los Angeles Law School in 1997.

There is a hole in my heart that will never be filled. There is an emptiness and a loneliness and a grieving and mourning that can only be felt when you have lost the one that has been most special in your life. I loved Robin and I cherished and worshipped her. Words can’t express how much we loved each other and although I will love and miss her every conscious day of my life, I am grateful for the time I have had with her and the pure joy she has brought to myself and so many others she touched in her beautiful life. I also know that I will see her again somewhere and I believe as she taught me that “life is eternal” and “we will meet again”, and that “it will be good no matter what happens”. Although I hope and expect to live a long, happy and healthy life, I also can’t wait to see her again. I love you for all eternity,

Barry

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