I have never known you in person, but ever since I met you in New York in the summer of 1977, I knew I had a crush on you. Perhaps I wouldn’t have told you even if we met one day.

Perhaps, I never thought of you suddenly ceasing to exist until today and I cannot believe that I occupy a universewhere you don’texist anymore.

How fortunate I am that even if for a mere few years, I walked the earth the same time you did. You made it a better place.

I am grateful that your paths crossed with my favourite filmmaker, who captured your aura in celluloid in its purest form leaving me with a vault of memories that I can circle back to at times when the world doesn’t make sense.

Your face, your eyes, your smile, your magnetic persona, your Chippewa Falls expressions have melted my heart since the first time I saw you when I was sixteen.

There will always be a part of me that will remain frozen at the age of sixteen and you are the one to blame.

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