Bradd's passing has really had a negative impact on my life. In losing Bradd, a void has been created in my life that can never be filled. A part of me is gone that I can never get back - and a brother I loved is no longer here. But as Bradd always has, he is making a difference in my life - even in death. Besides the fact that I am saddened by the loss of my best friend - Bradd's death has brought me back in touch with some old friends that I have not spoken to in years.

From my friend Steve, who was such as close friend to me that we spent almost every day together from 1988 to 1992, to Frank, who joined Steve and I most of the time - to my first ever girlfriend Stacey and her brother Adam. Upon hearing about the passing of Bradd, they have all reached out to me for information on where he is buried - and as a result - have re-established contact with me at the same time.

I can't tell you how strange it is to hear from people I have not seen in so long. I remember when Steve and I, being die hard Billy Joel fans, went to see Billy Joel at Yankee Stadium - eleven years ago. I remember when Frank joined me Steve and Stacey when I took my first ever trip to Monte's, my family's house upstate - in 1991. I remember when Stacey's brother Adam accidentally cut my hand with a razor that forced me to get the only stitches I ever needed - in 1989. And - I remember being in love with Stacey who was my first ever girlfriend - when I was sixteen. Let me put it another way - when we were friends, there was no such thing as the DVD, George Bush was the President of the United States - and the only Windows we knew of were the ones in our homes.

And now, we are almost ten years older then we were back then. We are all well educated, with good jobs, places of our own and lives well established, but when we spoke to each other over the last few days - we were those same kids we were all those years ago - remembering all the good times we used to have and wondering why we stopped talking in the first place.

I can't wait to see Stacey, Frank, Adam and Steve again. It has been so long since we have seen each other that I can't wait to get re-acquainted with them and be able to have them back in my life.

Leave it to Bradd to be able to leave this Earth and still take a group of people that lost contact for almost ten years and bring them back together.

Thanks Bradd - you never stop making a difference.