Whether or not I peed or pooped myself a tiny bit in that moment is not important for this story...
Check that: he watched the car race. I watched him.
It would be almost two years until I saw him again...
But my God, when she saw Paul Newman in the lobby that day...
“Do you think you could ask him to take a picture with me...?”
I say no. I am not comfortable.
I keep this picture in my office because it makes me smile.
But man, how I would love to have a posed, smiling, shot of my Mom and Paul Newman right now.
How I would love to have given her that moment...
Hopefully, on this Mother’s Day, this overly long and maybe severely boring story will serve as a reminder...
I have no doubt she found him wherever they are now.
God help him.
We miss you, Mom.
Paul Newman would have been lucky to have gotten that picture with you.