A neighbor approached and I told him about the vandalization of the elevator door then he told me the 2nd neighbor to the north had died last night after 2 weeks of Job-like torment--stomach, hepatitis, meningitis (how are these words spelled?), a hole in the esophagus, 2 bilateral strokes.
Now, this man was 65. He was a champion cyclist. When I went down at 630 to look for the papers (which was sometimes delivered) he would ride by on his bicycle. He was thin, wiry--enviable in every regard, I thought. We go away while the house it being tented and come back to this.
We got here 20 years ago, in time for the passage of old inhabitants up and down the street, but this man we expected to have around a long long time,
Now, this man was 65. He was a champion cyclist. When I went down at 630 to look for the papers (which was sometimes delivered) he would ride by on his bicycle. He was thin, wiry--enviable in every regard, I thought. We go away while the house it being tented and come back to this.
We got here 20 years ago, in time for the passage of old inhabitants up and down the street, but this man we expected to have around a long long time,
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