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Loss

2/19/2020

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I lost a very good friend recently--suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack.  Bill Beyer and I had been close since college and had shared a lot of personal experience over the years: Luther college, Hothorpe Hall in England, Upward Bound work, canoe trips, winter camping, travel, and in recent years a partnership in a maple syrup venture on our family farm.  He was a frequent presence in our home, and to my kids growing up more of an "uncle" than either of my brothers.  With the exhale of a breath he is gone. 

Life is ephemeral and close friendships
 are precious. I will miss Bill immensely.  This and other recent and imminent deaths have thinned my circle of closest friends.  It is a condition of the stage of life I have entered.  I am reminded to reach out to those I care about and to those who care for me. 
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J Lewis
2/19/2020 12:21:08 pm

I remember Bill very well from my summers working with you. He was unfailingly kind and warm to me. My brief encounters with him were very influential in who I've tried to become in adulthood. I'll miss him, too, though I hadn't spoken with him in two decades. I am so sorry to hear he passed.

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Rick link
2/20/2020 09:34:45 am

J

So good to hear from you. Thanks for your comments. It would be nice if we could touch base. Janet and I making a drive trip East his spring. Where are you?

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