but mickey had this wonderful way, i loved mickey leland. anyway, mickey's gone his way to ethiopia, and i said, mickey, i don't want you ever to go to africa alone. next time you go, i'm going with you. ron, i'm leaving on monday, i'm going to ethiopia to deliver some food to children in ethiopia. i said, i've got to go to a funeral on monday, let's go on tuesday, just wait for me, mickey, i'll fly all night, i'll come back, i'll meet you, i'll pack. i won't even go home. you know, i'll meet you out there. he said, no, man, i gotta go. young woman on my staff on the district of columbia committee staff, she came up to me and said, mr. dellums, i know you'd want to go with mickey. i'm getting ready to celebrate a birthday, and i was going to go to the caribbean, but i can't think of a better place to go than to go to ethiopia and go help congressman leland and help the children of ethiopia. can i go and take your place? and she went and took my place, and they both died in this a plane crash in ethiopia. and i lost, um, a friend beyond my abi