"Plenty of them. He was all kinds of a hero. The way I think of it... he lived through so many huge cultural shifts, carried the planet through so many huge cultural shifts, by the time I was born he was just too old to change one last time. He gave it an effort - I won him over by falling in love with his horses when I was five, I think - but he just couldn't deal with a mutie grandson, not completely. If he'd lived long enough to see me marry you, I think the shrivelled remnants of his mental flexibility wouldn't have been up to handling a haut Lady Vorkosigan, and he would've defaulted back to the military mindset."