The late Muryel Sue Gross, Dr. and Barbara Michalove and their sister Lois Michalove, Marc Rudow (he worked in my office as a student intern), Dr. Ruth Westheimer (whose parents died in the Holocaust after having sent her to Switzerland circa Kristallnacht), Ted Frank (conservative attorney I used to debate in usenet), Asheville mayor Kenneth Michalove, Mayor Leni Sitnick, Bob and Andrea Fink (college friends who came to Knoxville from Brooklyn), other college friends — Robert Schwartz, Bill Zwick, Ronnie Werner, Alan Roth and his Catholic wife Sharon (she converted and they invited us to their synagogue and we attended), Bob Satz Asheville restaurateur and a client, the late Lloyd Cooper (a great friend and client who invited me to his son’s Bar Mitzvah), Stephanie Cooper (Lloyd’s surviving spouse and a wonderful travel agent here in Asheville), concert cellist Mischa Maisky, concert pianist András Schiff, NY Philharmonic conductor Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Supreme Court Justices Louis Brandeis and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, comedian Myron Cohen, Buddy Hackett, Simon and Garfunkel, Norman Mailer, Marcel Proust, Heinrich Heine, pianists Helene Grimaud and Martha Argerich, and Khatia Buniatishvili, Attorney Paul Rifkin, and so on, almost ad infinitum.

I lived with a friend, Dove Landsberg, for several months as her tenant in Torrance, CA. She was a retired schoolteacher and full of mirth, goodness, and wisdom. “The Jews learned to live by their wits,” she said, “in order to survive.” I agree. That Dove! She was one hell of a wonderful human being. And so is my beloved friend, Lois Michalove.