 What isn't true about Charlie?
And perhaps most important of all, they'll make other men think of the stars and look up at them and feel humility—for mankind needs humility." I remembered how, as a kid, I'd pestered him in the Long Island Spaceport, tagging after him like a puppy, and how he'd grown to like me until he became father, mother, and buddy all in one to me. Charlie scorned the skin-tight uniforms of the government service and wore a shiny black suit that was a relic of Everson's early-day Moon Patrol. Charlie was muttering under his breath, smoldering like a bomb about to reach critical mass. Charlie doesn't like to be sentimental, at least not on the outside.
 he regretted the life he chose
 he was a great space traveler  he regretted the life he chose  he drugged himself to watch Ben graduate  he was sick with lung-rot