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This portrait of the Smego family dates from the early 2000s, a couple of years before Mark suffered a severe stroke. Family always was important to Mark, his wife Peggy said, and he loved spending time with their four children, Maggie (clockwise from bottom left), Matthew, Michael and Molly. "We were each other's best friends," Peggy said of her late husband. (photo provided)