Farewell

[linnaur]

A friend from my college days and fellow author died last night. I first met Tom Dietz when Jamie and were playing Toli (Native American Stickball). He was a strange, entertaining man, who always made me feel welcome, told wonderful stories and gave good hugs. We knew he was declining and that it was going to happen (he'd had a massive heart

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[zannachan]

Oooh. That's so sad. And we were just talking about him recently, because I saw his books on your shelf and you mentioned that you knew him and talked a bit about the stuff you did together.

I don't know if you can ever prepare to lose a loved one, but hopefully he's in a better place now, as you said, and he will always live on in the books that he wrote and the friends who remember him.

[linnaur]

Yeah, we really didn't interact much after Jamie and I split... it was one of those things where I think it was just 'uncomfortable', but I still talked to him quite a bit at SCA events and such and saw him at gatherings now and then...

[sibylla]

Oh no!

[quaintessimal]

*hugs*