Comment by chasil

What I will try to say is that we are with you, and that your sorrow is shared.

We cannot understand your loss, but we are moved by it, and it will mark us to a lesser degree than it has marked you, but the permanence of the mark will be remembered.

Take from us our thanks for your remembrance, and any solace that we might offer, scant as it may be, in your time of trial.

I will remember "Nikolas," the whispered song of what might have been.