So I decided, I'm going to think about someone who is no longer with me but was very dear to me, and that was my grandmother.

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Yet of all the Hanukkahs of years past, the most memorable for me was spent in Israel with my children at the home of dear friends.

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Queen guitarist Brian May, who published a book on astronomy written with Sir Patrick, described him as a "dear friend, and a kind of father figure to me".

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Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects.

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