Hello Thomas,
I cried for awhile after I read your note. Your experience and thoughts are just so insightful. I felt it right in my gut, and I'm still tearing up a bit.

Thanks for sharing, that was a beautiful piece of writing. Sometimes things that other people do or write become part of our experience, in a way... I have a feeling that the memory of what you've written will come back to me at certain times, when or after someone dies.
LisaG