Article: Flatterer, fibber, and mischief-maker supreme ... how I miss my darling Dad; From his actress daughter, a sparkling celebration of Rumpole creator John Mortimer, who died this year.(Features)

Byline: by Emily Mortimer

I'M TERRIFIED of forgetting my dad - of losing the feeling of being next to him. Sitting in his chair with him by the fire while he chewed his hanky. Or his elegant hand reaching out across a tabletop and his girlish voice saying, 'I do love you darling' or 'God, you look so beautiful', or 'This is the best lunch of my entire life.' It's very difficult saying goodbye to someone when they have no interest in dying. My dad always said that if there was such a thing as an afterlife he knew exactly what it would be - a lobby in some enormous transcendental hotel with lots of No Smoking signs everywhere and awful muzak playing through ...

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