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Honestly Human

Goodbye World, I Love You

In memoriam to Bob, my remarkable father-in-law

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Rick Lewis
Mar 22, 2026
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Robert Coles Krieckhaus - 1935 - 2026

“Opa died!” I heard my wife call from the hallway outside my office.

She had texted him as usual that morning, but received no reply across the 1,494 miles between us and the front door of her father. The last message my wife had received the previous day was a short video of the wind chimes on his front porch making …

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