RIP my mate Joe
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RIP my mate Joe
Joe wasn't a member here for anyone wondering.
I first met him about 30 years ago, he was in my sisters year at school and part of a musical gang I was part of.
We scattered as school friends do, but he stayed on the periphery of my life and me on his - once or twice a year we'd meet up as part of something else and we never had to reestablish our kinship, we always picked up where we left off.
He was kind and thoughtful - a true philosopher and a good bloke. Always the first to lend a hand or reach out when he noticed something wrong. It came naturally to him.
He never seemed to age in the good sense - he was still that optimistic funny bright eyed 17 yo.
But...he also drank too much and took way too many drugs. Always did, never stopped.
After not being able to rouse him for a week his friends sent the police out on a welfare check and found him dead. Autopsy to follow.
Gone at 48.
way too soon Joe, way too soon.
D
I first met him about 30 years ago, he was in my sisters year at school and part of a musical gang I was part of.
We scattered as school friends do, but he stayed on the periphery of my life and me on his - once or twice a year we'd meet up as part of something else and we never had to reestablish our kinship, we always picked up where we left off.
He was kind and thoughtful - a true philosopher and a good bloke. Always the first to lend a hand or reach out when he noticed something wrong. It came naturally to him.
He never seemed to age in the good sense - he was still that optimistic funny bright eyed 17 yo.
But...he also drank too much and took way too many drugs. Always did, never stopped.
After not being able to rouse him for a week his friends sent the police out on a welfare check and found him dead. Autopsy to follow.
Gone at 48.
way too soon Joe, way too soon.
D
Blessings to his family and friends. 
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