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  "note": "\n\n\n\n\nI wanted to say 'thank you' to everyone for your love, support, food, thoughtfulness, flowers, donations to SAVE, cards, emails, phone calls and kind words. \n\n\nThank you also to those who were able to make it to the memorial service; it meant a lot to me to see you there! Several people asked for a copy of the letter my dad wrote to me, that he read aloud at the end of the service. I am posting it here with his permission:\n\n\nDear Susanne, \n\nLife cannot be summed by a few facts \nand circumstances. Life is not cliché. And if life is to be understood \nthat understanding can only be in relation to everything else in life. \nIf you like where you stand, then every track you made to get there \nis necessary and important. Christopher has given you much love and \nhappiness. He has given you much personal growth and maturity. He has \nallowed you to see the world in much broader terms. His memory should \nbe forever special to you. \n\nFor my part, I do not dwell on what \nis, what was, or what should have been. Christopher came to me as a \nson. He respected me as a son would his father. I loved him as a father \ndoes his son. Sure, there were times he disappointed me as a son will \nhis father. But, for the most part disappointment is the fault of the \nfather. Now that he has passed from my life I grieve him as a father \ngrieves a son. \n\nChristopher had a way of looking at \nthings in a unique way. I like to think that this is something we had \nin common. He could look at things and take an artistic ownership of \nthem, things which owners merely own. He was not afraid to act out feelings \nwhich the rest of us could entertain only in dreams. \n\n\nTo know Christopher is to know that \nonly what is human can be foreign, the rest mixed vegetation in the \nwind. \n\nI love you, \n\nDad\n",
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