Tom Junod
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Appearances Over Time
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That he had... Something happened to him...
that couldn't be just sort of shuffled away like any of his other lovers.
I didn't put that story in there.
I didn't put any of the secrets that he shared with me at the dune deck that weekend in the story.
I spared him, and I put in the secrets that he wanted everybody to know.
The secrets of grooming, the secrets of hygiene, the secrets of dressing.
Everything else, I kept to myself.
To a man who was a diminished man.
And it was intended as a gift to him, and it worked as a gift to him.
And the piece became one of the most popular pieces I had ever written.
There was a photo of my father in it in a tuxedo drinking a martini, and it wound up in the window of the B. Altman on Fifth Avenue.
So I orchestrated my dad's funeral service.