Taltarzac725 |
12-04-2017 12:35 PM |
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Sounds like your uncle was a very special guy. I’m sure the funeral home employees were appreciative of his foresight. [emoji6]
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He did make a mess of the car and he could have gone and lived with my older brother or even with us. His suicide broke my older brother up quite a bit. As all of us. He had a quite painful disease and had not wanted to be a burden. He had been the son of a railroad lawyer and dropped out of law school so we had that in common when I quit BYU Law School after 10 days in 1982. But then I went back in 1986 to the U of MN after getting the MA from the University of Denver.
He liked the story of putting his life up as bail for a friend in Costa Rica and then the friend left Costa Rica so he had to too. He was fluent in Spanish with a son by one of these ladies in Mexico.
I sometimes detoured to Tempe, AZ on my way various places to visit him. He liked to hang out near Arizona State University but the landlord raised his rent on his garage apartment so he was out looking for new digs with that disease.
He made some of his money writing rag novelettes. Very little though.
I did check out the libraries in the Phoenix area while there visiting Robert for materials to help survivors/victims of crimes.
My parents lived in Scottsdale, AZ for two years or so while I was working at Information Access Company in Belmont, CA. So they saw a lot of Robert as well.
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