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Way back in 1995, while I was in high school, I started work at DataServ, an IT contractor for Novi schools. At that job I met Ryan who became a good friend of mine. We would eat lunch at Bates Burgers and use the subsequent digestive gas to knock each other out of the rooms we were assigned to run CAT5 cable through. We also made many road trips to other school districts, during one of which he decided to jerk my steering wheel causing us to 480 on the highway (entertaining after we stopped). We had alot of fun both at work and outside of it, but eventually he moved to California and we lost contact. Recently, he was at 5th Ave the same time I was there for Jeremy's bachelor party. We talked for a long time about what each of us had done in the last 5 years since we had seen each other. We exchanged numbers and vowed to see each other again soon. That was three weeks ago. Tuesday night his sister called me and told me he had passed away. Apparently a blood disease with flu symptoms was caught too late and he died Tuesday evening. His viewing was today, and as sad as it was seeing him laying there I felt fortunate we were able to talk again once more before he was gone. I'll miss you Ryan, and I'm honored to have been your friend.