Dear Jude:
I met your father when we were colleagues at i2 Technologies, and remained friends ever since. Even though we moved on in our careers and I even moved to Switzerland for a time, I flew back to London on the occasion of his 40th birthday. The party was an epic one, culminating in your father proposing to your mother in a heartfelt manner surrounded by his family and friends. In recent years we both became fathers late in life and in our busy lives we spent more time with work and family. Your birthday parties and our children’s have been welcome reunions with you and your family and I hope that will continue and deepen. Chris was a beam of light to all he touched and we will all miss him. He taught us to enjoy life and there is no more important lesson.