There were wonderful things, like the birth of the first two grandchildren - two red-headed girls - my kids are five... five years apart in age, but their first two children were born four days apart.  Two girls who are 16 at the moment of my speaking now, and there's an... ecstatic to have grandchildren, marvellous... I can just talk about it and be totally conventional. I was just another ecstatic grandfather.  When the first was born down in Concord, New Hampshire - or actually she was the second born, but I hadn't seen the first one yet - I went to the hospital to see the baby and took photographs of course, but then I couldn't stand it to wait for one hour developing so I ran out to a camera store, bought a Polaroid and came back and took more pictures which I could hold in my hand right then.  It was lovely, and since then there have been three more grandchildren, so that there are now two 12 year olds, and a 14 year old, as well as two 16 year olds, this was all wonderful. But shortly after the first granddaughters were born, I... oh, I can't think of the first symptom... oh, I know, fatigue... I... I was... I always take one nap a day, but then I was taking two naps, three naps, four naps, and I went to my doctor. I do tend, when something weird happens, to go check it out, and I'm glad I did. My doctor suspected that I was leaking blood somewhere, and he sent me to a doctor who gave me an endoscopy, where they put a camera down your throat, they are looking for a bleeding ulcer or something - nothing there. So they went in the other direction, and I had colon cancer. I will never forget... Jane came with me... they... they give you Demerol so that somebody else has to drive you.  And I remember the doctor sitting across the desk with Jane and me, saying, 'You have colon cancer'.  That's just the sentence that reverberates in the mind.