Now it's time to tell my story. Everybody is dead now. That's splendid. I won't have to change anything. Who is there to protect?

They're asking me for my story. You must tell the truth, they say! But what do they want from me? The gossip! From the grave they want the gossip. But is everybody dead? No, not yet. They...they... Not clinically dead, but... Who are they? Whom am I talking about? I'm talking about my friends, life-long friends, enemies, lovers, family, classmates, Harvard classmates, prep school classmates, colleagues, bus drivers. They don't know what to believe. Never did. Not one of them. They haven't a clue.

Now I want to tell you about my life -my real life- because it's getting late- how I dodged all the land mines, only got scarred by a bit of shrapnel, and hummed a tune while skipping my way through it, this journey that I never begged for, but what the hell, if they hand you a ticket you have to jump on the train, and don't waste your time to ask where it's going.

Already I feel that I am talking too much about myself. And I have only started. Why should you believe me? Who said this is a memoir? It could be pure fiction. Where should I begin? You won't believe me, anyway. I could make up a thousand stories. What's to stop me? I am fairly convincing. After all, I made a living as a writer, well, sort of. I never published a book. Who knows, this effort might get into print.

I do want to beg one small indulgence. Forgive me for not telling this story in chronological order. That method I find most tedious, and I would prefer to entertain you with my precious thoughts in a more helter-skelter fashion.

Keith lived in Paris in 1959, New York in 1960, San Francisco in 1961, and then lived in South East Asia for almost 25 years as a restaurant owner, and news writer, and as a spy, until he retired to Hawaii in 1983.

Following the text are photographs of a handwritten list of " Spies " according to Keith, from Bangkok and Singapore from the 1960's through the 1980's.

Keith's Obituary can be found on Legacy.com, on April 16th, 2023. His story is now available!!!