"Howard? Yeah, married a woman named Maria. They both died in '91, I think," he says, because he only saw it briefly off of Tony's paper. "December 17th, real close to Christmas." He sounds a little sad about it. "I never... asked Tony about him. And I... I wanted to call you. I wanted to fly out, see you in person. But I didn't know if I could just... drop into your life, like that."