:05:00
We communicated indirectly, I guess.
:05:02
In her letters and Christmas cards,
my mother wrote for both of them.
:05:06
And when I'd call, she'd say Dad was
out driving or swimming in the pool.
:05:11
True to form, we never
talked about not talking.
:05:17
The truth is, I didn't see anything
of myself in my father.
:05:21
And I don't think he saw anything
of himself in me.
:05:27
We were like strangers
who knew each other very well.
:05:36
In telling the story
of my father's life...
:05:38
...it's impossible to separate fact
from fiction, the man from the myth.
:05:46
The best I can do
is to tell it the way he told me.
:05:51
It doesn't always make sense,
and most of it never happened.
:06:19
Give me back my ring!
:06:33
Thank you!
:06:34
But that's what kind of story this is.
:06:46
His birth would set the pace
for his unlikely life.
:06:49
No longer than most men's,
but larger.
:06:52
And as strange as his stories got...
:06:55
...the endings were always
the most surprising of all.