A company friend said, "I know how much you will miss him." And she answered, "I already have." "Missing him all these years," she had given up a part of herself, which had cared too much for the man. She would be "well taken care of." His "dearly beloved" eldest of the "dearly beloved" children is a hard-working executive in a manufacturing firm down South. The day before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood talking to people and trying to get to know his father better. The neighbors were embarrassed, and pretended to know him better than they did. His second child is a girl, who is 24 and newly married. She lives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had very little to say to each other.