He'd already been married in Marin, had four kids, got divorced, raised his two sons Mike and Lad (been given the «mother of the year» award by his local PTA), discovered the woman next door had cancer (they'd been having an affair while he was married to his first wife, who'd moved to Hawaii with his two daughters), married her, watched her
die in their bed, taken a shower, called the
undertaker, buried her, and a few years short of fifty, moved into this massive, six - apartment - sized penthouse apartment by himself.