Comments on: My Friend, Howard https://kingofnovember.com/2010/03/my-friend-howard/ I've had some whiskey, and I've been thinkin'. Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:33:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 By: Ellie W. https://kingofnovember.com/2010/03/my-friend-howard/comment-page-1/#comment-61756 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:42:53 +0000 https://kingofnovember.com/?p=1525#comment-61756 Thank you for posting this. I also felt very similar to you when I found out that there was no way to get in touch with him anymore several years ago, just to say hi and know how he was doing in life, and I felt extremely sad at the time to find out that he passed away. For me, I met him in Tokyo, and I mostly knew him as a friend. He was there for me when I was deeply sad, and he was there for me when I was also happy both in my professional and personal life. He would tell me his thoughts straight to whatever was happening in my life at the time and he would tell me his, and I could tell him whatever I thought, and I didn’t have to worry about what he would think of me, he was a good friend.
I also wondered why he stopped communicating with me, and it was around 2006. He used to tell me he was back in the US, but he would come back to Japan very soon, then we could meet up for a chat, but I never heard from him again. I wish he told me what was happening to his life then…
He was truly an honest, kind, down-to-earth, funny and always a gentleman, and I wish I could just say hi again, catch up with him of current events, and go for coffee and eat sushi with him in Tokyo again…

]]> By: Neil Gobioff https://kingofnovember.com/2010/03/my-friend-howard/comment-page-1/#comment-58947 Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:10:37 +0000 https://kingofnovember.com/?p=1525#comment-58947 Just thinking about this today and thought I’d come re-read it.

Thank you again.

]]> By: Yvonne merrick https://kingofnovember.com/2010/03/my-friend-howard/comment-page-1/#comment-7900 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:31:36 +0000 https://kingofnovember.com/?p=1525#comment-7900 That is so wonderful that you had such a good friend and you should remember how he lived, not how he died. Howard would not want you to beat yourself up about not being with him in the end. He kept his illness private because that is how he wanted it. Sometimes we end up hurting the very people we are trying to protect.

]]> By: Neil Gobioff https://kingofnovember.com/2010/03/my-friend-howard/comment-page-1/#comment-4136 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:13:27 +0000 https://kingofnovember.com/?p=1525#comment-4136 Thank you.

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