… my family ended up being his family at the holidays.
Carl never married, and had no heirs when he died. I often wonder if the war put him on that trajectory. I think he would have been a great father. He was a great friend.
Best,
Ted
Ever cross your mind to ask? Bit of an outlier considering there’s something like 76 million boomers.
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Generation Jones
7000 of them will die today. Same thing tomorrow.
It did not occur to me to ask.
There was a woman that Carl had started school (kindergarten) with, who he had known most of 100 years. He told me they were just friends, and he would visit her at an assisted living facility in North East Minneapolis about every other month.
That ended when she entered memory care. Neither of them had any family left at that point.
Growing old is the punishment for having lived.
Best,
Ted
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I just want to die with my boots on.
