Full disclosure: I have known Greg Hardesty for over two decades. But there’s a part of him he kept secret. A good part. Greg and I worked side by side as reporters at the Orange County Register for 17 years. We covered happy stories and sad stories. The worst was when we had to cover funerals, or go knock on the door of a family that had just lost a loved one. We were writing a story for the newspaper, we would tell whoever opened the door. Could they tell us what happened? Or how much their loved one meant…