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e dropped dead”, said the stranger beside me at the local Japanese diner. He sat as if in prayer, leaning forward over the counter toward a woman
who appeared to be the owner, and who clearly recognised him. In my peripheral vision I took in the blur
of his physical attributes: African American with gray-flocked hair, probably in his late sixties. A little overweight, eyes saucer-like at the tale of his friend’s sudden demise. He clung to the Japanese woman’s
fingers as she listened. His friend, another regular customer who had often sat right here beside him at this very counter, had dropped dead of a heart attack a couple months earlier. “You remember him?”, the man asked. “Of course.” The friend never took care of himself.
He wouldn’t take his blood pressure or cholesterol medication. He ate cheeseburgers. He would never walk anywhere. In contrast, the man sitting beside me
had lived a clean, healthful life since undergoing bypass surgery 25 years earlier. He stopped smoking and drinking, gave up meat. Although he went on at some length to share the steps he had taken to protect himself from dropping dead too, he did not sound convinced.
“He dropped dead”, he repeated, speaking into the church of his steepled fingers. The Japanese woman nodded. “You remember him?” “Of course.” I had come here to work on a writing
project that had suddenly stalled, mysteriously deprived of the nectar of inspiration that had kept it humming along for a while – once more deluded by the ego’s crafty ways, that venue had anything at all to do with my connection to anything at all. As is often the case, I realised I had gone seeking my curriculum in the blank page only to find it sitting beside me. Another, younger waitress set a bowl of
rice and vegetable tempura before their regular customer; refilled his green tea. “He dropped dead”, he told her. The friend’s daughter had found her
father lying in his apartment on the floor. He had been there for days – dead alone on the floor right where he had dropped for days. His daughter had called to see if the man beside me wanted her father’s car, an old BMW purchased during a mid- life crisis many years earlier. His friend had wanted him to have his car. He still couldn’t bring himself to drive it. “You remember him?” “Of course.” I sipped my tea. It was hard to
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