youngman. really? yes. and that laughing all of the way. that connected you guys? i think that connected us. we both liked to laugh. he really does love literature. oh, my gosh. we traveled the globe 100 times probably, and i think that he would jump out of the plane if he didn t have a book. and mostly fiction or nonfiction. history. he can tell you about every knight tem plarticular. and i can, too, because he has told me about them. he reads history and no surprise that he reads the fiction, too, and he has certain favorite book of fiction like hemingway hemingway s lie for whom the bell tolls. yes. and who did he believe in principles? who to fight for even if you knew that you would fail.