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Hank

My first memory of Hank was in 1950. I was five.  We were living in Shanks Village, a WWII army camp in Rockland County, New York that was converted to civilian housing after the war.  Hank lived there with his wife Betty. Hank drove a bus in New York City.  Betty was a nurse.  They …

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The Shower

We received our death sentence on December 16, 2016.  The method of execution was to be lung cancer.  Sentence was carried out 229 days later, on August 2, 2017. Eight days after the diagnosis, on Christmas Eve, Robyn and I sat in our golf club at a table by the window.  We were there for …

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