"Is there anything you fear, Mr. Ebata?"

I said that before.

The other day, I was asked

"Is there anything you can't do?"

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It is adult behavior to understand that it is lip service and let it flow smoothly -- however even so, we received a grand service.

I gratefully accepted it as a form of respectful aging spirit.

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What Mr. Ebata can't do -- and that's a lot of things, among them

"The inability to take into account the feelings of others."

is the top of lists.