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Ayn’s Grief — Steve Mariotti, founder of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship and grandson of Lowell Mason, one of Rand’s advisors and friends, spent time with Rand in the final months of her life, and was struck by her profound grief over Frank’s passing.
"No one knows how sad I am. And this pain from Frank is killing me," he recounts her saying. "She told me with a breaking voice what he was wearing on his tall frame. She had kidded him about his baggy pants and he had laughed at her accent. They both liked the poem “IF,” and she recited it to him from memory. For her, it was love at first sight.