When I asked my father why his father, whom I never knew, had given him this strange middle name, he said, “I never spoke to my father unless he spoke to me.” That helped me understand why I always found it so difficult to speak freely with my father. Now that he has passed, I feel closer to him than I did before, having linked my healing venture with his name. The name is an alternate spelling of Troilus, a character in Shakespeare’s play and in Greek mythology epitomizing a youth that is mourned.