{"id":224,"date":"2006-04-03T20:23:19","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T02:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/03\/a-open-thank-you-from-mells-brother\/"},"modified":"2006-04-04T10:29:12","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:29:12","slug":"a-open-thank-you-from-mells-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"A open thank you from Mell&apos;s brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=224\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>(thanks J.D&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>Here is an open letter to all of Mell&#8217;s friends from his brother Louis Papaterpou. <a href=\"http:\/\/bittermancircle.com\/2006\/02\/28.html\">We lost Mell late in February&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div>First and foremost, I would like to thank Anthony Aquilato for initiating along with Bo Holst of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sirny.com\/\">S.I.R<\/a>. a fund to help my family and I cope with the expenses associated with Mell&#8217;s passing.Anthony was and is the closest Mell and I have to another brother. I speak for both Mell and myself when I say &#8220;we love you Tony, for all you&#8217;ve been and meant to us throughout the years, THANKS. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate to meet and know most of you throughout the years that Mell and I were actively playing out and rehearsing at S.I.R. You all became a major part of our lives. Those of you whom I never previously met, I&#8217;ve gotten to know through all the stories Mell would relate to me. Mell was my pulse when I needed a dose of what was going on in the music business.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to extend to all of you both mine and my family&#8217;s deepest and most sincere thanks for your most generous contributions and all your outpouring of love for my brother.<\/p>\n<p>I was taken aback by everyone&#8217;s thoughtfulness, compassion and pain when you came to pay your last respects. I saw for myself how hurt and lost we all appeared and how we tried to comfort each other in our own feeble ways.<\/p>\n<p>The pain I feel for the loss of my brother will forever linger on, for not only have I lost my beloved twin, but also half my soul.<\/p>\n<p>I know that Mell will forever remain deep within our hearts. Let his wonderful smile comfort us and his warmth and wisdom direct us through difficult times.<\/p>\n<p>I will forever hold all of you dear to me, as I embrace all of you as part of my family.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>God bless you all and watch over you always.<\/p>\n<p>With all my love,<br \/>\nLouis<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(thanks J.D&#8230;.) Here is an open letter to all of Mell&#8217;s friends from his brother Louis Papaterpou. We lost Mell late in February&#8230; First and foremost, I would like to thank Anthony Aquilato for initiating along with Bo Holst of S.I.R. a fund to help my family and I cope with the expenses associated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-3C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}