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"I don't want to force you to take about it." Ellie looked away. "I know in comparison we're very lucky. I had my dad in my life for a longer amount of time. I got to know all about him. Nolan takes after him a lot more than I did. He liked teaching university classes in his free time. Sometimes after school me and Nolan would pile into his office while he was practicing his lectures. He loved to teach us. I think some of my fondest childhood memories were in that times when we would be in the room and lecture to us. Dad would let us ask whatever ridiculous question we wanted. Sometimes he would know the answer and when he wouldn't we could open his seventy volume encyclopedia and go look for it. You know that was before everyone had the internet so easy in their hands. I really adored being the apple of his eye when we had him. You know you don't appreciate it really until it's gone."