Charles T. Botkin

Dear Dad, we all miss you very much. There was always, "Kentucky in our house with you.". Every time I play Basketball, I think of our time together on the court shooting baskets imitating Bill Bradley or Pistol Pete Marivich from LSU. You played very good. No need for you to imitate those guys. I know when you passed that morning, you took me back to our basketball court in Cambria Heights. I know you were there, and it wasn't a dream. When I woke up, "I had sand in my shoes, like the...