UPFRONT December 10, 2007 ISSUE

No small man

WARREN BOLON, SENIOR WRITER

Frozen pizza and clean overalls. Not exactly the stuff that dreams or fortunes are made of, yet they pair beautifully in my memory when I think of two men who said little to me about being a man, but spoke volumes with their lives.

Pizza was the product of my dad's devotion to a business he started from scratch and nurtured six days a week, doing everything from management and accounting to sales and, sometimes, delivery. My father-in-law owned and operated an industrial laundry service, investing his whole heart and mind in it over several decades.

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