"The person who had the greatest influence in my life was my dad, who was a wonderful small businessman, devoted to his family, devoted to the local church."

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And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.

— Vladimir Nabokov