It was interesting short story that put a tear in my eye (seriously) but since you knew Steve (even little bit), why did you put "SJ R.I.P." at the end?
Just to clarify to those who downvoted; Steve was a Buddhist. As you know, Buddhist underlying position on live after death is that it doesn't exist. After death you are simply being reborn. So Steve had nowhere to "rest in peace". He's alive again.
Was he really a Bhuddist? I never heard this then just after he died it started appearing in articles with the same sort of dubious quality as statements like 'Stanley Kubrick had a 200 IQ', 'Einstein was bad at maths in highschool.'
