Hank would be dead of lung cancer within a month

in lifes •  4 years ago 

Oh yeah, Hank? What job?
Circumcising elephants at the Denver Zoo! Hank said, proceeding to cackle until his hacking cough came back. After the fit, his wife pleasantly chastised him for being crass, and my half-hour lunch break was over.

Hank would be dead of lung cancer within a month. He was one of many people that I got to know (and lost) in my time working in a retirement home.

Being so close to death, in many ways, taught me to live. I had left my dishwashing job at this same retirement home after graduating high school in the fall of 2011, and by January 2012, I was back, after dropping out of college.

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