I finally got to meet Drew, Mark's youngest child and only son, on Saturday, March 18, 2006. Mark and I picked him up at Dallas Love Field when he returned from his Spring Break trip. He'd just turned 33 earlier that month and taught 8th grade U.S. history in Lewisville public schools. As I wrote to a friend the next day, "His son's plane was an hour and a half late, arriving at 8 PM instead of 6:30 PM, and then we had a late dinner. His son is really nice and looks (and acts) a lot like Mark."
I wrote to Mark the next day, "I really enjoyed meeting Drew yesterday. He's very much like you, you know - handsome, funny, charming. (Too bad I am not about 20 years younger ;-0 ). I just hope he was favorably impressed with his dad's current taste in women."
I also wrote to another friend, "Very nice guy, looks a lot like his dad and just as charming. Mark says he can tell that Drew liked me but I am not so sure." *
* I believe we ate at a Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen on I-35 near Dallas Love Field, and I think the following exchange happened then (or it could have been the next month, after Easter, when we picked up Drew at the airport once again). At one point, Mark got up to go to the restroom, and Drew turned to me and said something to the effect, "You know he's never going to marry you." I think I responded with something like, "Who says I want to get married?"
We were both wrong.
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The photo at the beginning of the post is one of the few of Mark and Drew together, this one from the summer of 1995 when Mark was living in California.
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