>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

Is this Jim?

http://www.cnfa.org/uploads/Moldova/jim_nelson_and_orhei_fruct_cooperative_manager_copy.jpg

Just poking around on Google and found it. Looks like him, but he's smiling, so I don't know... <s>