shock and sadness do not begin to describe how i feel. i have so many stories about jeff i wouldn't know where to begin. jeff was not some guy that i grew up with, he was part of my family, and my memories of him go back as far as i can remember. my family tells stories about jeff until this day, some so funny they're hard to repeat. while i had not seen jeff in quite some time, we exchanged emails fairly recently. taking everything for granted, i assumed, as i always did, that we would reconnect at some point. my connection to him going too far and too deep to ever really disappear. hopefully he'll read and see how sorry i am that that never happened. my deepest sympathies to his family and all that were close to him. jeff gershon jeffrey@gershoncompany.com