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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duncan Haldane" data-source="post: 1604193" data-attributes="member: 514">I saw this thread first a few hours ago.  I didn't post then, as I couldn't find the words.Now when I was ready to post I find that he has already passed away.As a gay man, I found great strength in Ryan's posting here.  I wouldn't call myself closeted (out to friends, family, but not at work), but he seemed so comfortable with himself he made me proud.When he first talked about his illness here I didn't think it was good.  I worked as a volunteer with an AIDS organisation for a number of years, and although the medicines available now are doing wonderful things, he was hit so hard by the virus I couldn't see they would help him enough.He drifted away from EnWorld a lot after that, with the occasional posting about his health.  But every couple of months I looked up his LiveJournal just to find out how he was.  I found myself thinking of him last weekend, and planned to look him up this week.Ryan is unlikely to have had any idea of who I am, but I will miss him.  Duncan</blockquote>