Visiting the Dead Cousin

I ran into a man and woman in the hallway yesterday as I left. When I returned they were still there and asked about a neighbor in Apartment 4. When they described the man, I mentioned that I thought he died last year about this time. Then the woman said it was three years ago. The neighbor was found dead of a heart attack.

The man was the neighbor's cousin and had come to see the door to the room where his cousin was found dead. He was visibly moved when I described my few pleasant memories of talking to the deceased in the hall. The deceased was an animated an personable youngish man.

Three years later this cousin traveled all the way to Los Angeles to look at an empty hallway where his deceased relative once stood. Life is short. Take care.



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William Schaeffer