> over someone I never met? Because we shared a passion, and he was so
> well
> liked. To all his family and his friends, I offer sympathy, and
> strength, because there is little else that I can do.
> I am just sorry, and sad. I feel as if I lost a brother that I never
> really knew I had.

i am reminded of the work by John Donne,
"For Whom the Bell Tolls", and offer this snippet from there ...

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if
a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine
own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in
mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it
tolls for thee."

unca joel