Larger Than Life

There aren’t very many men who have had three wives and can say, as I am able, that they have maintained communication with all and have twenty-five years of happy living with the third, born Patsy Ann Hatfield. My grandfather, who I was named after, Charles G. Mohl II, had three wives but basically outlived them all. He was a better man than I am, but I can say that the first two and I are in good communication and were also with Patty. They visited us both and loved Patty. She was a people person, and everyone knew her that way. She was bright, cautious, and conservative in her business ethic. I listened and am a better man for having had her as a partner. I have used the sports metaphor for my final message. In every contest, whether love, business, sports, or whatever, there is a winner and a loser. Life is not about whether you played in the game, it’s how you play thereafter. I am still playing thereafter at eighty-eight.