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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
Rushing at the modern sunset to your window / Gestured with the bleach in hand, she said "let's go" "L.A." she cried / The heartbreak rides for free — A.C. Newman, The Heartbreak Rides |
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Getting old sucks, and right now it’s sucking a whole lot for a guy I know named Stan Hecker.
Stan’s a nice guy, who was a teacher in Vancouver for a lot of years. He’s healthy, and fit, and there’s really no reason he should have needed heart surgery, but it had to happen apparently.
I haven’t seen him in a while, but in April sometime I bumped into him at a party. It was just after I’d abandoned my car for the summer — he knows the same people, and was over on the Island for the weekend.
Stan said “Hi, Skot”, and flashed me that great smile he always had then looked serious for a minute. He shook my hand, and said “I saw your Volvo over on Bowen Island last weekend, so I trashed it.”
It was the funniest thing anybody had said to me in a long time.
My heart is with you Stan, only one of many I know.
Posted by skooter at 3:12 PM This entry is filed under Family, Friends.