Even if not for as long nor as close as other wombers, I'm proud to consider you a friend. You honour us with your trust and your friendship. We're here for you, as you knew we would.

It was the end not only of a relationship, but of dreams and of an expected future, that can be just as painful as the actual event. I also feel the pain through your words, even if the analogous pains I may have experienced are not of the same magnitude.

I know you're not much of a man of Faith anymore Noel, but still I'll quote a saying: when God closes a door he opens a window.

You say you see the daylight ahead, and thus I'm hopeful and confident that you are making it through, that you'll find new dreams, that you'll find a way, even if through a window, to a new path after this door has closed.

The past is gone, time to forgive, but not necessarily forget, learn from it, and look towards the future to make it a better one, for you and your children.

I know you will, my sympathy, my best wishes, to you and your children.