Thursday, June 24, 2021

bill and abraham


bill and abraham were beautiful people.  they may have been married.  i think they flew away to new england or canada for that.  abraahm died before gay marriage became legal  in texas.  bill was a phd in french, and i'm not sure about abraham; but he was very advanced in languages.  they worked together at ut southwestern in medical record keeping.  bill was an international president of a medical record keeping association.  he had taught french literature and published on baudelaire and  picasso.  they took the train from fort worth to dallas daily.  had lived iin dallas, had a lovely home in fort worth.  they had 28 large parrots...mccaws, african greys, etc.  their living  rooms were solid cages and in their bedroom were perches.  they slept with their birds. and they used their kitchen to prepare bird food. they ate out every night, as had bill's parents before him.  they, bill's parents, were also beautiful people.  they ate in nice restaurants. bill's mother worked.  bill and abraham sometimes carried a sugar cannister in case the super sweet tea was not sweet enough for them.  they emptied free newspaper dispensers to line their cages...not thinking perhaps, but that's what they did.  i had known bill since the seventh grade.  we traveled to aviaries and bought birds together.  he graduated from tcu and his doctorate was at the university of maryland or delaware, i think.  they liked to travel to europe and france.  bill had no siblings.  abraham died with advanced diabetes.  he could not face life after his amputations.  they were roman catholics.  they were very good friends to me.  i miss them terribly..God have mercy on our souls. p.s. bill may still be alive.  we lost touch years ago.  he was in a nursing  home in dallas with advanced parkinson's.  had implants in his brain.  could no longer use a telephone or computer. i  do not have transportation.  he became completely non-responsive.  i have never seen an obituary. g.

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