What can I say Mare, other than thanks. You expanded on my request and I am deeply moved. Say a little prayer for me. How I am going to get through today & tomorrow only HE knows. Talk about band of brothers; well Art was my banded brother. So often we talked of things that weren't even shared with family. Thoughts of our wives Mickey & Flo were always up front.
Though our friendship goes back nearly 50 years; May 2, 02 changed that. Five months earlier, Mickey died after a long illness. Flo and I paid our respects and, to my everlasting shame, I went on with my life. Until the next May when Flo passed away with hardly any warning. I now knew what pain Art must be going through with his loss. I drove out to Novi to see him and we spent the next several hours talking and crying. From that day on we never missed a week, meeting on alternate Wednsdays first with coffee & donuts, then to the computer to see how we could mess it up so Jack, his son-in-law, could restore it to normal operation again. Finally out to lunch to finish the day. God he was a good friend. All my life I had this wall that kept people at a safe distance, but Art tore it down. Now I wonder where do I go from here.
Sorry to go on like this, but I had to let it out.
and now for the next two days