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"Daddy you need to stop going to those places There full of freaks and derelicts"

"So sayeth the uninformed"

"You're an educatedwith a bunch of drunks?"

My father lowered his head over his plate as if studying the molecular makeup of uarding it froht his napkin to his lasses at s you could say"

"It's Morrison, daddy," she interrupted

Grandfather folded his napkin and placed it atop his plate He cleared his throat "You hten your son into subans won't iththere's better way to spend your tih school You've mastered pseudo elitism"

"You know, I really resent your remarks"

"So what What makes you any better?"

"I don't believe you"

"Answer the goddamned question," his voice rose

"I would never carry on in public"

"That's right," Grandfather said rising "You keep it behind closed doors" He slipped into his arh with the sinners"

I tried not to smile

"I'll pray for you," she yelled after him "Can you believe hio he als" Turning to me she continued, "I never ed and retreated to ized as a revolutionary "A enerations" the young Californian ' to jump head first while his peers tiroaned at this co the way he died, I didn't blame her "Let us take solace that brother Stanley lived an active and adventurous life, full of many climatic events" Many of the solitary wo theht attendant I met at the Philadelphia Airport "Your Grandfather was a wonderful man," she said after the service

"Who the hell was that?" hbor before he moved," I lied