When he was 6 his dad died, and he grew up in the Catskills of New York with a stepfather who owned a small dairy farm, and his mother, a manicurist.

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His dad, Howard Eisen, died from suicide in 1987.

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"I saw my dad stuck in his business until the day he died, " Rosen says.

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My dad fought in the South Pacific and his brother, my uncle, died in a plane over Germany.

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Dad smoked cigars and cigarettes until the day he died, in his sleep, at age 81.

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His father died in September 2004, and Manglik attended the funeral, watching his dad's ashes sink into the same stretch of river where the elder Manglik had swum as a boy.

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After her mother died, Missy felt obligated to try to keep Dad from throwing away all his money.

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