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Service for Michael

Goodbye Michael, portal and friend,
singer of life and loyalties beyond care,
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introduction:

I remind myself now and again that 'Every death is an unfinished project'. Still, as long as we hold it in our memory, stir the waters now and again, the pebble of that life will continue to send ripples outward, to touch, sometimes change, new lives in distant places.
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introduction:

'free and clear.' Those were the last earth-bound words from Summer—
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