It was he who taught me to paint and change tires and drive a car and fish and clam and conch and crab and swim and grow an organic garden and use tools and.....
He died after a lifetime of never once being sick. He didn't get the usual colds and viruses that afflict most of us. Twice the flu went around and he never caught it. But he smoked and lung cancer killed him at the age of 64. He looked 10 yrs younger than he was because he exercised and watched his diet.
He quit smoking too late. His oncologist said his cancer had started years before he quit. He didn't get symptoms until it was too advanced to do much in those days (1982). He actually died of radiation poisoning used to shrink the tumors, not the cancer itself.
I would love to spend one day with him just talking about the stuff we would discuss over coffee... evolution. UFOs. Conservation. Nutrition. Religion.
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