Page ended his speech on a deeply personal note, sharing the story of his father Carl, who had caught polio on a trip to Tennessee in first grade and struggled with breathing difficulties his entire life. His father died just two months after driving himself to the hospital in 1996, shortly after Page had moved to Stanford for graduate school. Years later, Page and his wife Lucy visited rural India, one of the few places where polio still persisted, and saw the virus on their shoes from walking through contaminated gutters, right under beautiful children playing everywhere. He read his father's 1956 valedictorian speech, which had predicted a changing world of automation and technological wonder. Page asked graduates to keep their families close, because they are what really matters in life.