Re: "Man, 55"

The itch wouldn't go away, so in the end I bit the bullet and emailed the editor.

Just had an email back that said:
Thank you very much for this extremely well written tribute.

Do you please have a picture of Christopher that we could use to accompany the article?

I've sorted out the latter request (thanks to Kirstin T), but here's what I wrote:
( Snipped for those who aren't up to reading it just yet. )