> -----Original Message-----
> From: igorw2001 [mailto:iwesdorp@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 7:17 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] My last card to Grand Forks
>
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> Two weeks ago, I, completely unaware, sent a xmas card to Jerry
> Olson, as I have done for the last three years. Yesterday I got one
> in return. But it was not written by Jerry. It was his mother (!) who
> wrote me that Jerry had passed away about half a year ago. I hadn't
> been on the forum lately, or I would have known. And I hadn't written
> with him for some time. There were periods that we wrote each other
> on a daily basis, sometimes even writing more than one letter a day.
> And there were times that we didn't communicate a lot, that's
> just how it goes. But I thought about him him often and just the
> other day I was considering asking his advice about some matters.
>
> I owe him an awful lot. He was the one who first helped me with my
> newbie problems, and in every way he could: patiently answering my
> undoubtedly silly questions, sending me prints. And we had some good
> laughs too, exchanging jokes of all kinds.
>
> Whenever someone I care about dies, it feels as though some warm,
> protecting blanket is torn away and I am even further exposed to the
> coldness of the world. However, I never knew these feelings could
> be aroused by the death of someone I never met. A pen pal. Someone
> I've never even spoken to. But it did.
>
> I'll miss you, Jerry.
>
> Igor
>
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