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I just found out about Jamie a little while ago. My wife and I knew him and his wife when we all lived in Carrboro, NC. Steffi was part of my wife's knitting group and walked our dog for us on occasion; we all had "game night" gatherings together. I didn't know Jamie well, would have liked to know him better, but then they moved to Blacksburg.

I didn't even know his dad was an author. Turns out I have one of his books on my "to read" shelf.

My heart breaks for his wife, Steffi.

He was gentle. What happened is incomprehensible.

I'm grateful to be able to offer this memory to this community, to share grieving for all the victims, but especially for Jamie.

I was working on an ugly kludge converting asterisks to HTML codes, but in the meantime galloglass @ #2 posted the most elegant solution possible. For those anyone who couldn't quite follow what was happening there (I had to look up the \1):
1) Use a wildcard search to find any number of characters between an asterisk and another asterisk.
2) replace that wildcard text you just found with the same text (the \1 refers to the text grabbed by the (*) in the search), only underlined. The framing asterisks are not included.

Brilliant.

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