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December 2023

Hello I am Chris Gilsenan, long-time friend, travel buddy and neighbor to Tricia.  It is nice to see each of you here today, to see how well-loved she is. There is something that I wanted to say to Tricia’s parents during a visit a few years ago, and I will say it now:   Most of us can name one or two favorite people.  

Tricia was a true gamer. She could find the thread of fun in almost any situation and make whole cloth from it. One very memorable example of this occurred in February of 2020 - the good part of 2020 - before the pandemic arrived.  I took Tricia with me on a ski trip to Colorado where I lived before I moved to San Francisco. We

We all know that Tricia was a master of words and how to turn a phrase. During the first week of the pandemic social distancing period (March 2020) we were talking about the parking problem outside my apartment now that everyone was working from home. One car in particular was the object of my ire as it was taking the space of two cars