Alex and I would stay up late into the night talking about family and his memories of his childhood. He was so uncomfortable with attention, but with a few prods and a few glasses of wine he would talk for hours. I loved hearing about the ranch he grew up on, how he loved to ride horses and motorcycles and how food was always so important to him! Even when he was young, he would say that his mother and aunties would spoil him and make him whatever he desired...sometimes getting three or four different meals in one sitting! He told me how he lived in the tourette of school he was attending, and that he