It was. Bat had a lot of friends tho, so it was spread out more thinly than for a lot of other folks I have known with addiction issues bc of traumas. I was not there for all of this either.

Some of it I heard about second or third hand when we were putting together the memorial service last year. It was a lot of archeology, but it’s like I got to know my friend better after he was gone, and how many of us get that opportunity? So i count myself lucky to have been there, for all of it.