Life can end so quickly
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My friend and coworker, George Smith, was killed in this morning's wreck on I-40, when a Chevy Tahoe, driven by an apparent illegal alien who was drunk and carrying a fake drivers license, careened across the median and slamed into George's Kia as he drove to work this morning at 7:15 AM. My other coworker Mike was stuck in the traffic and thinks he was probably not much more than 3 minutes behind George.
George was a wonderful man and an excellent coworker. He had been at Duke for nearly 30 years. I'd worked with him for nearly 5 years, and we enjoyed each other's somewhat twisted sense of humor.
I have a banana tree growing in my front yard that George gave to me when I expressed interest in bananas after seeing them in the Duke Gardens.
George - by now, you'll have probably discovered that there are no weeds in heaven.
Rest in peace.