QUOTE : for Jared Lyman<br />(March 28, 1975-February 3, 2012)<br /><br />A man who knew how to love people. For his son's twenty-fifth birthday (sixteen years from now) he wrote:<br /><br />No Unlesses<br /><br />I love you and I'm proud of you<br />You might be watching this from prison<br />If so - I love you and I'm proud of you<br /><br />If you're watching this from backstage at Carnegie Hall - I love you and I'm proud of you.<br /><br />It doesn't really matter where you are or what you're doing...<br /><br />I will always be proud of you and I will always love you.<br /><br />I think that's what I'd say.<br /><br />I almost said “Unless...”<br /><br />But I couldn't think of an “Unless”<br />Nope<br /><br />No “unlesses