Nelson has been an awesome friend of mine since 1991, I just rudely never saw him that way until 1993 because he’s a tenacious dude! OK, I think the verb is appreciate.
Either way, he celebrated last Saturday with Pi Day and Albert Einstein except Nelson is tangible, not an irrational number, yet he is a constant in my life; oh, and he’s not dead. He was recently in Dallas to drop me a line.