Goodbye to a classmate, part II

Another.

one month later and I have to say goodbye to yet another friend. I told myself that I wouldn’t let what happened with Vicki happen again, yet it did. I was a little closer to fulfilling my promise to myself Bill Straman found me through Facebook and was able to catch up with him a little bit. We talked about getting a beer together, and even though he lost one of his legs to diabetes he said “Don’t get out for months at a time but I’ll make an exception for you “. I told him that I would bring some homebrew over instead once I had a batch ready. A few weeks later it was, and I contacted him about getting together. “I’ll have to pass, feeling weak and under the weather. Thanks, was the last I heard from him.

Bill was a really great guy in my book, he loved tossing baseball and academically he was an inspiration me. He got me to take Anatomy in my Senior year and though it was one of the hardest classes I took in high school I can still remember that the human body has 206 bones and can name at least one muscle on every main region of the body.

It may sound cruel to say this, but it seems appropriate since Bill was the person that turned me onto Queen – “and another one’s gone, another one’s gone, another one…” Well, you know.

Bye Bill, sorry you didn’t get to taste that homebrew, it’s really good.

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