It's been a year now...
A year ago today, I was awoken from sleep by a phone call from Ames telling me that the guy who'd been my best buddy since 1984 or so, Bill Gerber, had died suddenly and unexpectedly.
In many ways, it's been an eventful year...but I'd still give almost anything I have or could hope to have to have him back with me again.
We were pals..."mates," in Aussie talk. We could talk to each other about anything, and know that we'd at least be heard out, even if the other didn't agree. We weren't alike in many ways, but we had each other's backs through thick and through thin. We did each other favors without counting the cost, because that's what friends do for each other. Our birthdays were a couple of days apart, so we commonly celebrated together.
After his death, his sister said "You lost more of a brother than I did, Eric!" I think she was right.