Pat Kelly

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Pat Kelly died today. I'm not ready for this; I've known the man for 30 years. It's just too early for my generation to be falling. We're supposed to have 30 or 40 more years--and them the best ones. See the kids grow up. Travel. Be free of the need to work for a living, every day.

Even more frustrating, he was doing the right things--losing weight, getting exercise. Just not soon enough, I guess. At least he'd been retired for a while, had some time at home. But not enough, damn it.

Goodbye, Pat. It was good to know you.

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I saw Pat (and Miriam) on Saturday night at BSFS, didn't get to talk to him. (I think I did talk to Miriam, but I almost always talk to Miriam.)

I am really sorry for Laurel, who just turned 19 a few weeks ago, and Alexandria, who is just 13. That's too young to be dealing with the death of a parent.

We were at a funeral the week after 9/11 (not for a 9/11 victim--it was the mother of a local fan who died of old age) and he said then that he had retired a few months before but he knew some of the people that had died. It must be odd feeling like you dodged a bullet.

I think I need to go off and go nag someone now...