Can you hear me now?

 It is the end of the world.

 

Or rather it seems that way for Gary because he broke his phone.  Frankly, I’m surprised it lasted this long since he drops it multiple times a day every day but yesterday was the day.  The phone is broken and the world is ending because he needs the phone for…. Well…


From where I’m standing, he doesn’t need it at all.  For the last year, it’s been ringing less and less often.  And, although he’d like to blame the ringer, it isn’t the ringer.  Friends used to call but rarely do anymore, which I completely understand.  You never know what you’re going to get when you call – is he going to be lucid?  Hallucinating?  Aggressive?  He’s less and less himself every day, so why would friends call a stranger?  His family doesn’t call either.  For them, I’m a little less understanding.

 

I never thought I’d say this, but thank goodness for visits from dead Uncle Harry.  At least it gives him someone to talk to.

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