As our mother told us to always say positive things about people, we sat here in front of the computer in silence to meditate and try to identify something positive about the golden boy, as the gold was largely just cheap, tawdry costume jewelry.

He is out of our life. That is positive.
Or as Bette Davis said when told of Joan Crawford's death: "My mother always told me to only say good of the dead. Joan Crawford's dead. Good."

Erase, Erase. He's not really dead, just dead to us.