He played guitar and percussion, learning traditional son and rumba more formally from age 7 at a community school.
Michael, 59, developed terrible chest pains on learning his son had been lying to him about his university results.
Emotional support comes in grisly news footage: civilians being shot; gravely wounded troops; a father's self-immolation after learning his son, a Marine, is dead.
Taken quickly, often in agony, sometimes blinded, mothers' screams from bedsides, many only just learning their sons were gay let alone hours from death.
In "Flowers & Football Tops" a father learns his son has been killed.
Geraldine learned her son was dead from a text message sent by an Islamic State (Isis) commander.
Later in life, when he learned his son had Asperger's syndrome, Burry realized the description fit him perfectly.
"I was distraught to learn my son had lost his innocence like that," the woman told me.
The Fishers had never heard of Prospect Park South until they drove there the morning they learned their son was dead.
