Thanks

I spent my last night in Michigan sitting in my parent’s living room holding a volleyball and crying like I haven’t for many years. On that night, I got a more intensely sincere send-off than I ever expected, and I knew that a surprising number of people would honestly feel my absence. This won’t be drawn out or personalized, now or maybe ever, but I feel now that I made some serious oversights then. So engulfed in the affection being showered on me at the time, I became completely inept at showing what you all mean to me. Many did not get the goodbye’s they deserved. As part excuse but more a statement of my fortune, nothing said or done in a night could have addressed my feelings comprehensively. I was never with words what most of you are, but know that I love and miss all of you; you are my family.

JKS