>>I'm afraid it's the worst sort of news. Jim passed away., I don't know the exact date, but the apartment building superintendent thinks it was cancer.
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>>Sorry to be the harbinger of bad news. I know we are all going to miss his crusty ways.
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>>Alan
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>I'm really sorry to hear this. Although we often disagreed, I will always remember him as a nice guy. RIP, Jim.

Same here. We disagreed on a number of things, but one thing that nobody can ever say about him is that he didn't care.