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Electric Works Last week, Linda and I visited the new "Electric Works" project, near my old neighborhood in Ft Wayne, Indiana.   We ate at Mad Anthony's Brewery...and got a window seat, overlooking the corner of Broadway and Taylor streets. My family had moved near that corner about 1957.   My brother was in 1st grade, I was in 4th. Mom and Dad only had one car so Chuck and I walked the 14 blocks to Miner school, every day. Sitting in that window brought back a lot of memories. That window was half way to school for Chuck and I....and a refuge from the winter weather for a few minutes.

  Almost twenty three years ago I  found my daughter, my only child......dead in her apartment.  She was 26 years old. The coroner said she died of a aortic dissection the day before, about 14 hours before I found her. Her little Shitzu/Poodle, Meeka lay by her side all night. Linda and I made numerous calls the night she died.  I even drove to her condo and tried to find out why she wasn't answering our calls.  Her lights were on, music was playing...I assumed she was taking a shower or had fallen asleep.  She was working two jobs and rose each morning at  5am to work out at Bally's Health Club . After I called her office at Raymond James in the morning, and they said she never came to work.  I panicked. Life does not prepare you for this.