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Joe Cohen was a law student, "a teacher, a man who loved theater, who worked with special-needs programs at the Jewish Community Center," his wife says. "He was a giving, warm, all-around good guy." He loved learning about Judaism and was studying at Oak Park-based Machon L'Torah. He adored children and taught summer acting programs for children, including hosting a traveling children's performance troupe. Alec was old enough to get to know his father — Joe died when Alec was 2 — and Cindy made it a point to have Joe in their lives, even when Joe became terribly ill. Whenever Joe was feeling up to it, Cindy and Alec visited him in the hospi- tal. When Joe couldn't breathe without the help of a ventilator, Cindy explained to her son exactly how his father would appear before they went to see him. By the time they got to his room, Alec was ready to sit on his father's lap. Finally, Alec understood that "Dada's body stopped working." After Joe died, Cindy spoke often with Alec about his father, part of keep- ing Joe "alive in Alec's heart and mind." Today, the two still enjoy hearing the tapes Joe made, where he reads Alec's favorite stories. Alec recently became bar mitzvah, and as he stood on the Temple Beth El bimah, he was wrapped in his father's tallit. Cohen encourages others to "make someone who has died as much a part of your life as possible." Take a grandfa- ther's favorite shirt and sew it into a teddy bear for his grandchildren, she suggests. Tell favorite stories from his life. After Joe's death, Cindy wrote Daddy's 118* '-'1* . 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