"I remember his face as if I saw him yesterday, " she said.

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Kate said she was very proud of the man she married almost 25 years ago, and would remember him with a "big cheesy grin on his face".

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In the waiting room as we checked into the hospital, his father sat next to my mother and I remember the image of him exactly: olive skin, broad face, and long shiny hair, his head held in his big hands as if it had cut loose from his body.

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