He spends a few moments with each person, he asks about their lives, he cracks jokes with them, he is playful with the children who are there with their parents, and he usually gives the culturally appropriate good bye of a kiss on each cheek to the women who were there.
● Taking off from Joan Didion's famous 1967 essay about leaving Manhattan for Los Angeles, 28 women describe their own love-hate relationship with the city in "Good Bye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York" (Seal Press, $16).
Say good bye to that white salt shaker you see on every restaurant table.
Loved ones were invited to leave their "final good-byes" on Post-it notes affixed to the SPARCstation, which had on it a plaque engraved with, "Beam Me Up, Scotty.
"Who did you find in Indiana?" I told him about Paul, who had kissed me good-bye on the rooftop of the San Francisco Hilton after a high school science convention.
The Bold and the Beautiful's Susan Flannery, please don't say good-bye on my birthday!
Saying good-bye on Commonwealth, Updike paused to watch his "wobbly" elder colleague walking away under the elms: "I felt badly," he remembered, "because it was as though a natural resource was being wasted.
His friends and family were able to leave their final good-byes on post-notes.
