They want to give a sendoff. And they want an exit interview.  How to condense 23 years of worklife into 2 pages? Very weird feeling, this. Yes, I have known it wouldn’t be easy—no matter what. Some of the inv. reactions are worth keeping,  to read in my dotage. 
Taking a deep breath. No it was never going to be easy.
"There is, in the tides of men..."

This is the closest I have come to crying in a very long time.