TERRANCE AIKEN: Always Making
Plans
Terrance
Aiken's youngest baby was a burgundy Jaguar, a four-door
sedan he had bought secondhand and painstakingly
restored. Every weekend, he piled his children, Terrease,
Kanan and Andre, into the back seat and set off for a
leisurely drive. He often bragged to his wife, Kimberly
Trimingham-Aiken, that he looked good driving that car.
He told her that she looked good, too, on the few
occasions that he let her drive.
A former pro basketball player in the Philippines, Mr.
Aiken, 30, taught himself about computers by taking apart
a clunky I.B.M. desktop that he salvaged from the
Salvation Army. He later filled his home in Staten Island
with computers, and just this month, started working as a
computer consultant for Marsh & McLennan.
Mr. Aiken had wanted to save enough money for a larger
house, and another Jaguar fixer-upper for himself. "We
were making plans," Mrs. Aiken said. "You never think
that tomorrow you won't be here to follow through on
those plans." he was more vigilant pursuing fish than he
was yanking weeds and spreading fertilizer.
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