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Eulogy for FatherWe argon gathitherd here to give Dr. Jerome, my dad, a last formal farewell. We celebrate his sustenance with the piece of music of Choose Life. For throughout his intent, dad consistently chose smell. He has the perfection given virtue of seeing the possibility of life. In many dower when many are finesse, he sees possibilities for more abundant life. His vision is so clear that it drives him to action. And he is a man of action. He always tells me that his actions are calculated risks. Only after his death have I sleep together to understand what he means by calculated risk. I conceptualise he weighs the possibilities for more abundant life against the personal risks that his actions might incur. For him, the possibilities for life always out-weigh the risks of personal loss or rejection. His vision gives him the desire and courageousness to act. When he cut the possibility of a great life in relationship with another, he married my mother, Theresa, in 1938. His vision was correct and resulted in a fruitful life-long relationship that brought forth 5 children. When he discovered that I suffered from asthma, he chose a better live for me by meet a pediatrician. The result was not totally a better life for me but also for his many patients. In 1947, he saw the possibilities for life in the West. So he came over to study in St. Louis. His father, my grandfather, was blind to the possibilities and refused to send him here. But his mother, my grandmother, sold some of her jewelry to pay for his amaze here. In 1949, when the Communists are moving to take over the country, he saw the risks to our lives and come back to get us out. For him the risk of Communism was greater than the uncertainties of immigration. We left one week after the Communists captured Shanghai, with expired passports, and on the only ship to visit Shanghai that year. If dad was only one twenty-four hour period late, our lives would have been radically different . When he saw that teenagers needed a peculiar(a) kind of medical care, he left his practice here in order to study at Harvards adolescent unit. He was the first vivify in St. Louis to practice adolescent medicine. He also authored a phonograph record on the subject. Later in life, with considerable personal sacrifice, he chose to flake for the life of the unborn, for medical ethics that protected the aged and infirm, for an end to chief city punishment, and for other related causes.