And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
On a personal note, a legacy he left me, aside from being a friend who was important to me on many levels, was that the decades I knew Sam [Fuller] happened to be the decades that were his least happy professionally.
She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.
You moan, "She left me." "He left me," Twenty more will come.