I could sense it coming. But I couldn’t write anything beforehand and I cannot write anything worthy of him now. So I just sat down an hour ago when I heard the news - Aaron told me as he clicked on Gawker - and sat a while and got up to write and then blubbered a bit and, staring at the screen, read through some emails from him.
I’d asked him last year to write a letter to the Immigration Services sponsoring me to finally become a permanent resident of the United States. Who…