From the last of Chapter 1 As our relationship developed, we knew we had met before and soon figured out that we had met twenty three years earlier at the coffee shop. Richard remembered my Dad very well and that Dad always had a cigarette hanging from his lip and always was always fantastic when ask how he was. My Dad died in 1989 from colon cancer. Cancer and death was a major aspect of Richard and my relationship. On our first date Richard told me that he had had surgery in January of 1993... Sign in to see full entry.