I finally stopped reading your articles around this time last year.  It hurt too much.  One of the reasons I have such disdain for pictures and facebook in general is how it brings back things like this.  I really miss when we were close.  It’s the typical story of going away where we stay in contact at first and then slowly our contact becomes more infrequent and less personal.  We have more or less reached the point where it has faded completely, which makes me incredibly sad.  You had such a large impact on my life and I hope I had some impact on yours.  I will always treasure a few of our memories, particularly the thank you note incident.  I know you don’t read this anymore, but if you do happen across this know I miss you and hope you don’t find this weird.  Maybe I’ll try to reach out again, but I just don’t know if I can.  Anyways, take care of yourself.

Love,
Andrew

P.S.  The fucking kicker to all of this is that one of the few pictures of myself that I actually like was one I was with you in.  That picture has been deleted from facebook.