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Dillon T. May, 32, died on May 3, 2026.
Dillon was intelligent, funny, whimsical, and often impossible to pin down. He had big dreams and an independent spirit, along with an abrasive and wonderfully inappropriate sense of humor that could turn an ordinary conversation into uncontrollable laughter.
Dillon had a strong interest in technology and built his professional life around cybersecurity. He earned his degree in cybersecurity from St. Petersburg College and went on to work in the field. He was also involved with the Rotary Club, reflecting a part of his life that extended beyond his career and into his community.
He loved Atlanta, particularly Buckhead, and dreamed of someday owning a loft there. At the same time, Dillon and his longtime partner, Theo, dreamed about eventually building a simpler, more affordable life in the Midwest before perhaps finding their way to the West Coast later in life.
Dillon and Theo shared nearly a decade together. Their life was made from far more than milestones. It was private jokes, wandering conversations, shared dreams, pets, stolen snacks, borrowed razors, misplaced nail clippers, difficult years, ordinary days, and the particular language that develops between two people after years of knowing one another.
Like any two people who spend that much of their lives together, they were imperfect. They worked through those imperfections, including through therapy, and continued choosing one another. Their relationship remained one of love through the end of Dillon’s life.
Dillon was more than the circumstances of his death. He was more than any single relationship, struggle, or chapter of his life. He was a whole person with ambitions, accomplishments, friendships, interests, humor, contradictions, and a place of his own in the world.
For Theo, remembering Dillon also means carrying forward something Dillon taught him: a life does not have to be measured by the things a person accumulates. Dillon left behind a greater willingness to wander, dream beyond one place, hold possessions a little less tightly, and hold experiences and people closer.
Everyone who loved Dillon will carry a different part of him. Theo will carry the Dillon he knew: complicated, funny, frustrating, ambitious, loving, whimsical, and entirely himself.
He was loved until the end, and he remains loved in his absence.
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