A fact that was not lost on the young man in her midst.Looking around, Doris felt an uncomfortable pang of jealousy whenever someone, usually a woman ...r a group of women, took notice of her handsome nephew. She decided to take her mind off it all and to clear her head a bit after the wine, by going for a walk along the beach. She got up and, brushing a bit of sand from her behind, announced to her prone, sunbathing companions that felt like a walk. She had just started off when she heard. But again, I was just kinda dumb and nothing looking; I knew it, and it bothered me, a lot. I needed to change the dumb looking part. New clothes, the man'd said. New clothes but cheap and colorful new clothes. Okay, no problem. I was not at all miffed that Gil had denigrated my three-thousand dollar suit; he was right, I did look like an undertaker. And my car screamed old guy, boring, and unimaginative. So, next stops? Stan's Used Cars and Walmart. But, and then what? I had it! Marge's. While they chatted the phone rang. Denise went to answerit."Hey darlin'", Denise called out. "It's Beth, she wants to know if wehave plans for dinner next Saturday." There isn't anything on my calendar, so it is good with me," he toldher. Denise came back to the table. "I told her that would work. She said itwas a special occasion and we ought to dress formal, like that lastnight in Tahoe. Is that going to be a problem? Bad memory?" No," Randi told her. "It's time to build more good memories.. The place was quiet. Dad was nowhere to be found. Then he was, on the patio. My father, really what was actually left of my whole family, had passed.I wheeled myself over to the body of the man, and I was actually angry. He didn’t have the right to go this way; no, he didn’t; but, he had.She came up behind me. I was staring. It was all I could do. It was all I knew to do. I’d seen men die. I’d killed men. But this was way different. Cancer was a way different way to die, a dirty way to.