i wonder if this will reach you? we had one little summer together. you were one of my first crushes. i never thought i would still think about you but there you are, always in a little corner of my mind. i hope you're loving the stars.

Gulliver you are and were very much loved by so many people. As time passes I realize more and more how precious, special and unique you were. You are missed and thought about every day. I hope I can be with you again.

I've rewritten this "thought" three times now, each time struck by how cheap words can be in the face of having lost someone so precious. But I want Gulliver's family to know that he has not been forgotten - not even by those who didn't know him tremendously well. It has been ten years since I met Gulliver - he was freshly thirteen, and I was nearly fifteen - and still I remember him. I think of him. I want his family to know that.