One of our Brothers Passed

[Kent]

I am really sorry to hear that. Dirk was going to go sturgeon fishing with me last fall. About five weeks before the scheduled date he sent me a PM when I posted an open invite. He was really excited to go and said that he hated to have to wait the five weeks or so before the trip. A couple weeks before the scheduled date he contacted me and said that he probably wouldn't be able to go because he had been diagnosed with a serious cancer condition. He was still going to see if he could go but the first cancer treatment got scheduled during the time that we would have been gone. He showed up at my house, with money in hand, to pay for his part of the trip (realizing I wouldn't have time to find a replacement). I refused the money but I could tell that he was a class act for offering the money. I have kept in touch with him, from time to time, since then and was hoping to be able to take him fishing for sturgeon this spring.
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