On her birthday, today, I learned that a friend has died of an illness that had dogged her for a couple of years. She came through town a couple years ago on what I knew then to be a farewell trip. She knew it was maybe the last time she'd be well enough to travel and so 1/
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she did. It was odd for me a little bit because I didn't really know her that well. She had worked for someone who worked for me down the line and I had sat with her a few times, counseled her on her career path and given her some advice I guess that was useful to her. She 2/
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left the company that we worked at not long after our chat. It was probably something I said. I'm not well-constructed for the corporate environment. There's this thing where at some point the structure of these companies discourages innovation in favor of endless repetition. 3/
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Anyway, it's not good for the soul and I'm sometimes a little too free about telling that to people who work for me. I'm working on my own things now. I'm a lot poorer but I'm also a lot happier for what it's worth. The stress is bad, but the soul is healing. Anyway, she came 4/
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through and through Facebook, she reached out and asked to see me. We met at a coffee shop. She told me about her treatments and her struggles, but from the perspective of someone who was engaged in the fight. She was an expert by that point. She was always optimistic. 5/
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In the last several months of her life, I kept in touch with her through her posts detailing her struggles. I'd send words of encouragement, but I'm not wired like she was wired and I knew this was going to happen. When I look at it now, I realize that she knew it, too, all 6/
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along, but chose to use it to galvanize her life - to give her a thing to triumph over every day. She got married during this period, she enjoyed her favorite food when she could. She traveled. She told her friends and family that she loved them. She learned all she could. 7/
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She sucked the marrow from life and she shames me and my small struggles and minor stresses. I think of her often. I'll hold her as an example for my kids when things get hard and she'll live forever through all the people she touched in this way. G'night, Sharon. Thanks. 8/8
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Thank you for this remembrance, Walter.
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