Dad: I don't belong here!
Me: Where do you belong?
Dad: Cupertino!
Me: Is there somebody or something you want to see there?
Dad: No.
…
Dad: [pulls out speaker phone, dials]
My brother: Hi dad, how are you? Settling in OK?
Dad: I'm going to ask you to do something hard. The hardest thing you've ever done. [Struggles to regain composure.]
Brother: What's that?
Dad, in an emotional whisper: I want you to take mW somewhere … to die.
Brother: Sorry, I'm in the car, can you speak up?