He told me that life was hard, and if I expected it to be easy, I was bound to be disappointed and disillusioned. He taught me that having true friends was more important than having money, and treating others with respect was the measure of a good man. Most of all, he taught me that when the time came, and I found a woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, that my job was to protect her . . . not because she’s weak, but because she’s important enough to be protected.”
