A good and gentle man

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A good and gentle man

My father Norman was a gentle, friendly, solitary man who liked to be in bed by eight thirty even in his younger days, with a self-stated ‘low information threshold’. He bored quickly and conclusively; couldn’t stand the sit-down ritual of a dinner party. Stultifying. He liked movement in all things, despite being unabashedly unathletic. I never said it out loud, but my father possessed a certain physical grace, and as a young man looked good wi…