I’m Gary Strang, Kyle’s Uncle and Craig’s brother. Kyle interned in my architecture office in San Francisco for the past two summers. During that time we had lunch together nearly every day and we must have tried every lunch place that it is possible to eat at in the Mission, and we had some good talks. I also (like Jesse) tried to talk him out of the tattoo, on different grounds. Kyle had the Shema, the holiest prayer of Judaism tattooed on his chest which is not very traditional. Most Jews don’t get tattoos because during WWII many people got tattooed who didn’t want to. I tried to explain this to Kyle and encouraged him to talk to someone knowledgeable about it. Because I was his boss, I thought I had some pull with him, but in the end he told me he had thought about it, and it wasn’t a question of being traditional; this was right for him.
It has been amazing to meet so many of you from Kyle’s community. You think you know someone and then you realize that they have this whole other life that you knew nothing about, this whole other world. And that has been really beautiful to see.
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