. and said, in a voice only we could hear, “This is your reason to push forward. I’ve been around people who’ve said they were in love with some...ody for a very long time, but absolutely never, have I seen the kind of love, you two have for one another.”“Oh, Randall, have you thought about that ‘other thing’ we discussed?” he asked.“Yes, Jeff. I want to direct BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, with Marcus as my Assistant Director. I plan on pre-casting a few roles, but I’m ‘All In’.”That made Jeff chuckle a. “You didn’t do so well by my grandfather; can I trust you to do better by me?”If he was upset by the question, he covered it well, his face remained expressionless as he told me of his regret, it had been his responsibility, and he held himself personally at fault for not being able to keep my grandfather alive. He could not blame me if I chose to sack him.Then I asked him how was it, that while under his supervision, my grandfather still died under his watch.He again took full responsibility,. I was involved with a woman who was ar late 40’s. I was in the military and was a First Sergeant managing recruiting teams. She stopped in the office for some literature for her so who was interested in possibly joining. Anyway she and I were chatting. I was about 40 then and had 18 years of service. We would talk and she left and said thanks for the info. About a week later she stopped by again and we resumed our conversations and then she made small talk about the ribbons and badges on my. (well, the owner's check.) Next I hit a Mailboxes Express/UPS store to get a service address. I had a few thousand bucks available on my credit card. It was time to buy a place to stay.Down near South Chicago Heights was a storage yard that IDOT (Illinois Department of Transportation--the tollway authority) hauled all the stuff involved in collisions on Illinois tollways from the Indiana border to the Wisconsin state line. I had an idea that I might find a trailer there. I'd seen camping.