DeweyPhilsner looked like Ron White - height, hair, smile.  We spent our weekly hour together talking about his wife, how after cancer treatment she was always gone with friends, on long weekend trips to the beach or traveling up north to visit family.  Then he'd disturb my sympathy with a serious invite to Mexico.  

I suspended judgement because Dewey was not a friend but a client, yet likable enough to blur the distinction, so I just kept listening while pounding his bare…