Jack "Zelik" Cyprys

I think of Jack so often, and always with love and respect.

I first met Jack when I went up to speak to him after having read the obituary for his wife Renia. It was posted on the wall at The Oaks, where Jack and Renia lived, and where my mother lives. I offered my condolences, which he accepted graciously, although he did not know me from Adam. I had noticed the numbers tattooed on his arm, and I felt curious to know him. We talked for a just a minute and I asked him if I could come talk to him sometime, and he shrugged in a friendly way--a gesture I...