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Someone I thought I'd meet someday.

Desmond Sheiham

Paul's best friend at Cambridge, of whom many stories were told with a smile over tea. Who had the guts to turn down a job at GCHQ, the British equivalent of the National Security Agency, for moral reasons. Who used to stay up to have a late-night snack and chat about math. Who convinced Paul it's useless to vote; who had a fine, thoughtful cynicism I'd have liked to argue with him about.

I'll miss you, Des, even though I never knew you.