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Coleman wanted to live in a world where people treated each other with respect and dignity. Period. No qualifications, just humans treating each other well. This was not unique to him, but I believe he held up his end of that equation the majority of the time. I have been better about this since he died, and I have had some success. I won’t be able to do it as well as he did, but I can try.

Why couldn’t I have understood this while he was alive? He could have taught me so much. Now I’m just left to guess.

I have been trying to put off this post until I can do it without sobbing, but I can’t get it out of my head.

Patrick Coleman Saunders was a beautiful person, and he died.

I don’t know why I get to live, when such brilliance and kindness can pass away. Coleman made more people happy in his thirty years than I could in a hundred.

He will be missed, perhaps for as long as I am capable of missing.