An Excerpt from a Really Kind Email

I may have only been around your family for a few years, but I can still hear you dad's voice as he joked with me. I can remember his mannerisms as he pulled off his headphones after coming into the house and decided I might just be worth talking to. Even though I just passed by, your dad always managed to make me feel as though I clicked. He was intimidating in his brilliance but never in his attitude or approach. He was inquisitive and engaging and I'll be damned if he wasn't a hell of a lot of fun to talk to. I never once had to fake it around him because he never felt the need for artifice. Now, after years spent in various businesses, and so many hours spent talking to people who didn't give a damn about what they said or what was said to them, I know how special it was that your dad said what he thought and meant what he said and didn't think it was necessary to say anything else.