When I wasn’t sure if it was worth it to keep going, because of how hard it was, you were there to show me it wasn’t going to be easy, but it was going to be worth it.
You arrived when you were most needed and held the ground steady in your quiet way. For us, there is no question, we could never have made it this far without you.
When people asked how old he was, he would say 1009365, more or less, because he was so glad to be alive that he counted every day a birthday. He had some disagreement from his knees about the actual figures though.