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I wasn’t sure if it was appropriate to start this thread…but than I received a message through facebook from Neil (OILFAN #81), now I have never met Neil, never spoken with him other than a few PM conversations and replying to posts in threads…but reading his message made me realize that although many of us will never met that there is a sense of camaraderie here and in a way I consider many of you my friends

I have known my friend since grade 7 we where friends all through Jr. high and high school we played 3 years of football and rugby together and in the last months one thing we had always dreamed about came true…we got to live together, I am so thankful for that even if it was for only a short while…he was a very kind hearted person who always made you laugh, he never had any enemies everyone who knew him loved him

He was diagnosed with epilepsy in grade 10 but he never let it change his life…he still lived every minutes to the fullest and was always the life of the party…but early Friday night he had a seizure that took his life, but not his soul he will always live on, his name is Matt Suelzle he was 20 years old and his obituary is in the paper today…there is also a group devoted to him on facebook with over 300 members

Also please extend your sympathies and condolences to his friends Josh (jroc), iggypop (Tim) and bylan (Derek) who are also members of CP we where all a very close group although he always made fun of us for being message board nerds