The Way We Were Before: A Coming of Age Novel by Moshe Marcus

Author:Moshe Marcus [Marcus, Moshe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

Of course I didn’t know it then, but Mom’s story about Yanko would also be my final memory of him.

A few weeks later I headed to his place for one of my regular visits. At that point he already lived alone; even Aunt Betty had gotten sick of him and left. I knocked on the door but nobody answered. I banged harder. “Yanko!” I screamed. “It’s Rico, wake up!”

I thought he might be in a drunken slumber. I knocked on the door once more. One of the neighbors came out. Yanko, he told me, had passed away a week earlier.

The drink and the cigarettes finally did him in. The neighbors found him near the house, stinking and unconscious. By the time they managed to get him to the hospital, he was gone.

Hardly anybody came to his funeral. Only a few neighbors.

I had loved him and he had loved me.

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