Short Squeeze (2010)
“He took his impending death as just another affront, perpetrated by forces indifferent to his personal dignity, not unlike his engineering clients or the clerks at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
In addition to magazine articles about women living alone, I never read inspirational tales about people who fight fatal diseases with valiant determination, turning a two-month prognosis into ten bountiful years. Probably because my father turned a ten-year prognosis, at minimum, into two miserable ...years of abject surrender, nicely embellished by unrelenting self-pity and complaint.
It was a display of heroic proportions, if not exactly heroic.
Given this, it was unsurprising that something like a will, the ultimate recognition of the inevitable, was the last thing he’d think about, much less compose. I should have known this was the case, but, of course, I didn’t, assuming no intelligent, educated adult would be that selfish and uncaring.
I was only in my first year of law school at that point and couldn’t even spell intestate, much less deal with its consequences.MoreLess
In addition to magazine articles about women living alone, I never read inspirational tales about people who fight fatal diseases with valiant determination, turning a two-month prognosis into ten bountiful years. Probably because my father turned a ten-year prognosis, at minimum, into two miserable ...years of abject surrender, nicely embellished by unrelenting self-pity and complaint.
It was a display of heroic proportions, if not exactly heroic.
Given this, it was unsurprising that something like a will, the ultimate recognition of the inevitable, was the last thing he’d think about, much less compose. I should have known this was the case, but, of course, I didn’t, assuming no intelligent, educated adult would be that selfish and uncaring.
I was only in my first year of law school at that point and couldn’t even spell intestate, much less deal with its consequences.MoreLess
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