SimpleSimon
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Doc sounds like aman I would have enjoyed knowing.
My father's older brother, Clint, lives in Arlington, Texas, and every time I've been around him I have learned something. Although about as far from being a teetotaller as one can get (he has a beer frig on his patio with a full size keg in it and a tap protruding through the door - it gets a new keg about once a month), he has still, at near 80 years of age, that same attitude towards work, especially work with his hands.
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"...the last thing somebody crippled wants is your pity—and maybe not even your sympathy—he just wants to be normal again, just like everybody else. Every gesture of caring becomes a slap in the face, a reminder that you are not well. So damn your sympathy, damn your caring, how dare you stand over me, perfect and healthy, and offer your help and your secret condescension.
" - John Varley, Steel Beach
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