>>Mike,
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>>See modified sig line. He set the bar high. I can only hope that I'll reach it now and again.
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>I know you were deeply affected, George, and your humility isn't a put-on. I was tempted to send you a condolence, but I was afraid you'd think I was insincere. Ed left us a valuable legacy that will be long remembered. We didn't see eye to eye on everything, but I had tremendous respect for him.

Well, Ed and I didn't see eye to eye on everything either. Few people do agree on everything. My wife and I don't.:-)

I try to take each correspondence on its own merits so I doubt that I would've doubted your sincerity.

I don't claim to have been Ed's closest friend. I can think of a number of people who were probably closer. However, it did take me 2-3 days to really get over it and stop grieving.

>I'll never forget the first time you helped me. A bunch of other very prominent guys were shooting from the hip and just didn't seem to get what I was driving at. Only you stuck with it until I was satisfied, and it wasn't a trivial problem. Thanks, for that too.
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Hey, I do what I can to help. A lot of people did the same for me when I was just getting started. When asked how I could re-pay them, they uniformly said, "Do the same for someone else".