Today is — to our relief — an appropriately gray, rainy day for the first anniversary of our friend's murder.

Drew, the hole in our lives is acutely painful and the world is a far worse place without you in it. Your family and loved ones are somehow managing to continue on without you, but it is largely in part to the stregth and kindness you always imbued.

We felt everyone would be better off if your uncle was no longer in this world, but we couldn't imagine he could wrench that from us too.