From: freemand@cosmoslair.com   
   Copy: clive@davros.org   
      
   On 12/13/2013 12:49 AM, Nick Spalding wrote:   
   > Nick Spalding wrote, in    
      
   >> Or maybe not.  I've just learned that he died a few hours before   
   >> I posted that message.   
      
   Sad news indeed.  One of the few people on USENET that I communicated   
   with privately via email, way back when he still lived in Daly City.   
      
   In case there are any here that did not know this already, Dave was a   
   saint in real life, though he would never admit it.  He and his wife   
   took in troubled kids and made them their own.  Turning quite a few   
   lives around, I would bet, due to his love for kids that he didn't even   
   know at first.  He never made a big deal about it, I had to worm it out   
   of him once.   
      
   No matter how curmudgeon-like he responded to posts, and I was the   
   recipient of many of those posts, I know what a good person he was. I   
   will really miss him.   
      
   Dave, you were one of the good ones.   
      
   Don Freeman   
      
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