Loved and Lost

Country star Billy Ray Cyrus says he knows exactly with whom he'd choose to spend one more day—his father, who died of mesothelioma.

"My dad was my best friend, he was my confidant, he was my buddy, my pal, my mentor," Billy Ray says. "He was everything a dad could ever be to a boy and to a man."

That day, Billy Ray says, would be spent riding horses. "My dad was a horse whisperer. I loved to go out and just ride with my dad and watch him ride in the wind," he says. "It was the greatest joy in the world."