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Chase your dreams AS HARD AS YOU CAN This is not a space for After exchanging political discourse. It never pleasantries, he started has been, and it won’t be this telling a story. A story about month. how he had been squirreling But this is where I tell away money for the last few stories, and I have one to years so they could retire share. early. RANDY CAPPS My Aunt Janine died a few “She always wanted to randy@johnstonnow.com weeks ago. She was 62, and travel,” he said. “And I had she died from COVID. just about saved up enough That would be sad enough by itself, but money when we got sick.” unfortunately, it goes a little deeper than They contracted COVID at about the that. Shanna and I drove to Florence for same time. He was quarantined at home, the visitation, and after talking with my while she wound up in the hospital. He mom and sister for a bit, I found myself managed to be there during her last days, face to face with my uncle, who was doing not that it appeared to make him feel his best to keep it together. much better.
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“I don’t know what I’m supposed to do now,” he said. “I never wanted to travel. It was all for her.” I stammered out something about how she would want him to do something that made him happy and tried to be as comforting as I could. But I was struck dumb. It was one of the saddest things I’ve ever heard. I’ve got dreams that don’t involve working every day and things I’d like to do in this life. And whenever I think about my future plans, I’m going to remember my uncle’s face and hear his words. I’m not wasting a single day. Life is just too short.
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