During the one and only class luncheon reunion I attended, I was told the story of a man who never got along with his father. One day the man had a big argument with his father and said something insulting to him. He turned his back on his father and, as soon as he did, his father collapsed and died.

Nonon Padilla said that the incident could have been a scene from one of my plays.

Actually, I would never write such a scene. No one in the audience would believe it.

But then again this kind of thing DOES happen in real life, not only to the man in the story. I recall that, many years ago, it happened to a transgender's father on the day--or was it the next day?--he arrived from the States. The father all the while believed that his son was in military training, and had no clue that his son would come back as a female fashion plate.