Memories of Uncle Steve: Harvey Lehrer and Pam talk about Pam’s Uncle Steve.
- Stan Hecht
- 7 days ago
- 1 min read
I was born when Uncle Steve was 18, a senior in high school. He was the
tallest person I knew and loved to laugh. My earliest memory of life was
when I was 4 years old and my sister Staci was 18 months. We were flower
girls at his first wedding. (We were also at his second wedding.) To this day,
I feel we were the luckiest people to have Uncle Steve as our Uncle. Listen
here as Pam and Steve’s good friend Harvey Lehrer talk about Steve’s
influence on their life. As Harvey says, “Most of us followed life’s highway.
Except for Steve. He heard a different drummer, a different orchestra. He
was just brilliant. You would never come away thinking that… Steve could
say something in a sentence…not a paragraph. Our friend group still gets
together, and we often talk about Steve.”
When I began writing seriously, I couldn’t quite find my voice. In an email,
Uncle Steve wrote: You need to find your voice. I wrote and I thought and
finally I wrote something and sent it to him. His reply: “Oh, you found your
voice”. He loved to read anything I wrote and we were each other’s biggest
fans.
Thank you, Uncle Steve, for the postcards, the laughter, the stories and for
believing in all of us. Thank you to Harvey, too, for sharing his thoughts
about his friend Steve Wilson.
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Expect Good. Defy Gravity! Sparkle On. I will always love you, Uncle
Steve!
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