God bless the soul of my beautiful cousin. I loved him beyond words. He was a special gift in my life and, although I hadn't seen him in too many year not a day would go by where he didn't enter my mind, or recall some beautiful memory of him in our youth.

Words are inadequate to say what he meant to me or how much I adored him. Memories of our lives together on the Lower East Side flood my brain and they are all beautiful.

Death is less frightening now. I know I will see him again on the other side of the veil.

See you soon, my beloved cousin, my friend, my brother, my companion of youth. See you again, and we will have a "catch" out on the lawn...