He was a grand soul and I miss him. ¶ I don't know when we started corresponding. It has been over a dozen years and maybe twenty. ¶ Learned of his death in December through a mutual friend. ¶ In the last few years, we've been swapping letters almost weekly. The letters were mostly speculation about human migration out of Africa and the arrival of humans to the American continent. Over the many years, we were both astounded on how often our speculations were close to right. And then our letters would conclude with a discussion of politics. The conversation was never finished. ¶ We never met in person and I had no idea what he looked like until his image was posted just now. ¶ Had he lived, on 24th March he would have celebrated his 82nd birthday.