Let's run down the list:
- Father assassinated
- Mother institutionalized
- Mother later publicly embarrassed him for institutionalizing her - she was released and they were estranged
- Witnessed James Garfield's assassination
- Was in the vicinity of William McKinley's assassination
- Son died at age 16
It kind of comes across in the photograph, where the slant of sunlight illuminates a hand but most of the man is recessed into the dark. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.
I can imagine (read: fantasize about) his desperate desire to continue his family line, resulting in his grumpily/tragically attaching himself to a much younger woman and spending whole orgasmic days in bed. (The nice thing about fantasy is it's immune to decreased libido and performance concerns.)
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