My mother always taught me to never forget those "thoughtful words", please and thank you. My Dad has always done that too and I tried to teach my children that if nothing else. I have heard them upteen times reminding their own children to say those little words and even hear them now with grand children. Kind of makes me smile, I made plenty of mistakes raising them for sure, but this is certainly something that must have soaked in. I hear you on the missing part, still have my Dad here at 95yrs. old and in fairly good health which I am so grateful for. My Mother died 20 years ago next month and there are things all the time that just makes me smile like it was her for sure. Just little things that can crop up day to day, thank heaven for memories.