Meeting Alice, Saying Goodbye.

I remember meeting Alice for the first time. It was a dinner at Canlon's celebrating her anniversary. I was the "new girl" and so nervous. She came in and smiled at me, sat down next to me and took my hand. I felt like I knew her forever. There was something about her that was indescribable, a "lightness of being," - something about her smile and the way she looked right into your eyes when she talked to you. I used to say that she was lucky to have a son like him but now I know that he was lucky to have a mother like her.