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claimed to know him.

I knew Conrad from afternoons spent in Central Park over a 20 year period. He talked about having known John Steinbeck, Jacquline Bouvier, Einstein and other names you might have heard of. Of the stories, the one that stuck out to me, was of Einstein, cheating at chess.

I listened to his stories as a kind of entertainment that was probably bullshit. Then, one day, he pulled from his pocket, his brother's obituary. His brother was mayor of Oyster Bay and he was listed as a sibling.

Oyster Bay and Southhampton are both on Long Island. Southhampton is where Jacquline was born.

Maybe it was all true.