Emma always loved you, very, very much. For many years this caused me a great deal of pain and jealousy. I used to overhear your phone-calls and watch you together at parties, and she always lit up and sparkled with you in a way she never did with me. I’m ashamed to say I used to read her notebooks when she was out, and they were full of you and your friendship and I couldn’t bear it. To be honest, mate, I didn’t think you deserved her, but then I don’t think any of us deserved her really. She was always going to be the smartest, kindest, funniest, loyalest person we would ever meet, and the
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