44 • F O R E V E R YO U N G FIREWORKS ON THE CHARLES RIVER AND IN MY HEAD And then things changed. In 1963, Bob Reese, his wife and two daughters came up to Boston to celebrate the 4th of July. The company had just been sold for $26 million to their next door neighbors, the Hershey Chocolate company. The Reese family stayed at the Sonesta hotel and invited us to watch the fireworks with them. Bob had fought hard to keep his brokers, but Hershey was set on doing sales themselves. That night, there were fireworks going off over the Charles River and fireworks going off in my head. I had a house with a mortgage, two children, two thousand dollars in the bank and I had just lost 50 percent of my income. That was the first of many sleepless nights. ©iStock/JesseJamesPhotography