“I suspect that I will let myself feel his loss, our loss, only gradually.”

Paul Michael Glaser is paying tribute to his lateStarsky & Hutchcostar David Soul afterhis death at 80on Thursday.

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It just takes time, I tell myself, he continued.

David Soul (left) as the intellectual Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson and Paul Michael Glaser as the streetwise David Starsky

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To all his sons and his daughter, China, my deepest sympathies, he said.

He concluded, We have all lost a dear friend who shall live on in our memories.

His other credits included the 1973 filmMagnum Forceand 1979’sSalems Lot.