Just finished The Ghost by Robert Harris. (Un-put-down-able!) The Arcadia Institution is a similar esoteric, exclusive org. In the novel it's headed by a CIA agent.

Thought for a moment you were talking about St Jeremiah of Top Gear.

This is by far sadder news - my condolences.

You were privileged; I guess he was too.

Just to add - in my own case, the "grown up" child seems to have no particular allegiance to either parent; ie he seems antipathetic to both, for his own reasons - with which I am in complete empathy, however sad that might be.

There are no winners in this kind of situation.

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