Encounters
''emphysema'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜encounter｜ENC｜20260915190735-47-•
He picked up on the second ring, sounding both happy to hear from me and as if he’d gotten three or four cans further into the sixpack than I had so far done. We passed the usual pleasantries back and forth—most of my own almost entirely fictional, I was dismayed to find—and he mentioned that a famous neighbor of mine had kicked the bucket, according to the news. Had I met him? Yes, I said, remembering how Max Devore had run his wheelchair at me. Yes, I’d met him. Frank wanted to know what he was like. That was hard to say, I told him. Poor old guy was stuck in a wheelchair and suffering from emphysema.
Source: Bag of Bones ▫𓂃
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