Email from Pepin:

First, Pepin. thank you for letting me share your email with my friends on my blog.  I had to make a few changes in it because my friends and I don't speak German.  Bruce had downloaded a German translator on my Ipad so I typed some of the words in to it and add them.  

I left out the personal note your father wrote to me.  I hope he recieved my response and I hope he knows I am the one who is so honored.

Bonnie.

Thank you so very much for letting people see the Bruskiasban we loved so much.  I must admit I did not understand calling him Bruce until someone explain the c in Bruce is pronounced as an s. 

My father Oskar Sommer is the brother of Nadine Sommer.  Aunt Nadine is Bruskiasban's mother.  My father says Nadine has been evil her entire life and Bruskiasban's sisters are the blood of their mother.  Bruskiasban's, father, Lutiz Albrecht was a fine man just like Bruskiasban.  But he had no words for Aunt Nadine.  She was the head of the family.  Aunt Nadine was from a poor family.  When she married Uncle Lutiz she became a wealthy woman and had money to be evil.  She did not want any more children after giving birth to her daughters.  When she found out she was with child with Bruskiasban she tried to abortion him but could not find a doctor willing.  

My father said when Bruskiasban was born Nadine wanted him gone.  My Father is a very religious man.  He says that when Nadine looked in Bruskiasban's eyes when he was a baby she saw goodness and the only thing that scares the devil is pure goodness.

That is not true that he did not speak when he was very young.  Bruskiasban was born on September 30.  I was born on August 28 so we were very close in age and lived very close to each.  We played together at my house often until he was sent away.

Bruskiasban's father tried to visit his son, but Nadine would not allow him to.  For many years they communicated only by letters sent to our home.  My father would cry and say it was sad that Bruskiasban only knows his father as a pen pal. 

When Bruskiasban was in boarding school he told me the other children went home for holidays and summer, he was not allowed.  The other children teased him and called him an orphan.  He asked why children are so mean.  Bruskiasban never understood that he was a child.  I believe he has always thought of himself as an adult.

The summer before he went to military school I stayed with him.  We camped on the bluffs over looking the water.  Bruskiasban loved the big sail boats.  He said someday he and I would sail away together and never come back to Germany.  He said we will be Americans.  He had a telescope and we would look at the stars.  He was a very brilliant young boy.  He knew things I never dreamed of.  When we were camping I told him I was hungry and we had run out of food.  I said we should go back to get food.  He said he was not allowed and his father would send food. I went anyway.  Aunt Nadine told the cook to send enough food that he would not be a bother for a few days.  I cried all the way back to camp.  When I told Bruskiasban what she said he cried and said it was OK.  He said he prays for his mother and father and someday they will love him. I cried harder.  I could not and still do not understand how someone could not love their children.  I have 3 children and 3 grandchildren.  I would die for any of them. 

The day Bruskiasban left for military school I cried I say.  Will I ever see you again.  He said love God and yes we will.  As soon as he graduated he came to my house and we decided to go to the same college.  He was so smart.  I tried to talk him into taking some of my tests he would not.  But he helped me pass them.  I got married out of college and he joined the airforce.  I did not see him again until his wedding.

He married Gisele Knut.  She was very beautiful and a very nice woman.  Seven year after they married she was with a baby and Bruskiasban was not the father.  He was heartbroken that she had been unfaithful. 

Two years later his father died.  His father had to leave his monies to Aunt Nadine because that is the law.  But he had secretly hid a large sum of money for Bruskiasban.  When my father told Bruskiasban about the money he cried and cried and said his father did love him.  My father hugged him and said he loved you more than anyone else.  Bruskiasban gave every dollars of the money to Orphanages all over the world.  He did not keep any of it. 

Two years later Aunt Nadine died.  She left Bruskiasban a small amount compared to what she left his sisters.  In American monies Bruskiasban only recieved 12 millian dollars.  That is but a small amount compared to his sisters.

Two years later he moved to America.  It was always his dream to move to America and be an American.  Three years ago I met him in Canada.  He told me how much he loved being in Ameria and he loved his job.  I wish he had been with you and we could have met you.

Valdor has been Bruskiasban's friend since they were 12 years old.  They loved each other very much.  At Bruskiasban's funeral Valdor cried like a little baby. My family and I  cried. His sister's did not cry.  They did not care about the man in the casket.  They did not care that his heart once beated with love.  Valdor  begged them not to put him in the vault.  He said Bruskiasban wanted to be at sea and to please let him put his body in the sea but the sister's would not.  Valdor is a good man.  He is strong and handsome.  He was my cousin's brother in love. Valdor told my family what a good woman you are.  Valdor said Bruskiasban loved you with all his heart and said you were his world.  Valdor said Bruskiasban said God wanted you to be with him and he would take care of you always.  I think that is why he left everything to you because he wanted you to be taken care of.

Bruskiasban was and is the most gentlemanly man I know.  He had exquisite manners, polite and kind.  He was a God fearing man who always tried to do the right thing.  He tried to live his life in a Godly way and be kind to humanity.  He is someone who's job on earth was over and it was time for him to sit among the angels. 

I have loved him my entire life and shall always love him.  He was my friend, my cousin and my hero.  He will live forever in the love he showed to people.  The kind way he treated them and in his soft spoken words.  I know you, I and Valdor will never be the same, we have touched someone who now sits among the heavens waiting on us.  He would not want all this to be on the World Wide Web about him but he deserves this.  His life deserves to be celebrated.  He deserves the love he never got from his mother, father and sisters.  Valdor said he wants you to write a book on Bruskiasban's live.  I would most certainly enjoy helping you with that.  It would be my great honor to have written words to let the world know he was not like everyone he was special.  He was good.  His heart broke each time he saw someone hurting.  His heart broke when tears would run down someones face.  His heart broke with the pain and sadness of others.

In my heart and mind he will always be the kind, tanned, brown headed, brown eyed,  little boy on the bluffs of Germany pointing to the stars saying "Pepin when we are Americans we can see those same stars when we look in God's heaven." 

May the God of this Great World Bless you, Bonnie.  May you live your life in peace and harmony and goodness that you may someday see our Bruskiasban Waldron Albrecht again.

I do love you as my sister.  When you come to Germany I would be honored for you to visit our home.  God always wins over evil.  Every time.