All the best to you buddy, rivalry means nothing at a time like this. I don't know if you read my post where I said that if I'd followed my Dad I would have been a Palace fan as both him and my Grandad were Palace fans from Thornton Heath, indeed my Grandad used to watch Palace before they moved...
Really sorry for your loss. Unlike you I have no one special who introduced me to the Albion, if I have to 'blame' one individual it would be a classmate of mine at primary school, Brian Othen, who took me to my first Brighton game in about February/March 1966 soon after I'd moved to Lancing. I...