Four decades ago, her answer was always a no. Oh, it came with a smile, or tender touch of his arm, but it was still invariably a no.
Micheal O’Reilley asked Linda Feldman to marry him many times back in those days when they were both Alameda County public defenders, living together in the Berkeley Hills, with their three kids from previous marriages, a blended family.
He hollered it down canyons in Hawaii. He said he’d hang it from an airplane banner over a Cal football game…