This shot is from January 12, 2018, at Lucille's Bad to the Bone BBQ in Boynton Beach, Florida.  The significance of this moment is that my brother David has just become a grandfather.  We were blessed to be eating dinner with Alan when the text came informing us of the birth of the next generation in our family.  

The photo is from the last time Alan,  my dad, Alan's first cousin Bob, my mom and I had dinner together before my dad died.  The date was in April 2012.   It was at a fish restaurant somewhere on the waterfront between Boynton and Delray.  

My dad and Alan, as the only members of their generation on the Sorin side, had a bond that was beyond close.  

These photos are from the photo album of Freda Sorin Ackerman, Alan’s aunt. 

In some ways, my first memory of Alan was the defining moment of a lifetime of memories.  He and Audrey had just become engaged, and he drove her and Aunt Esther from the Bronx to Detroit to introduce her to my grandmother, his aunt Freda, my dad, his only first cousin, and the rest of the family.  He drove the whole way with his left arm out the window and for much of the drive that meant the sun was beating down on his skin.  There was no such thing as sunscreen and by the time he showed up at our home the skin on his left arm looked like it was covered in scrubbing bubbles.  I’m sure it was painful but to a five or six year old boy it was the coolest thing ever.  

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25 juillet 1939 – 28 avril 2019

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