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Dear Ndugu.

A letter to Ndugu · About Schmidt (2002)

Dear Ndugu.

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I hope you're sitting down...

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1Dear Ndugu.
2I hope you're sitting down ...
3...because I'm afraid I've got some bad news.
4Since I last wrote to you, my wife, Helen, your foster mother...
5... passed away very suddenly from a blood clot in her brain.
6The services were lovely and very well attended.
7Jeannie came in from Denver with her friend...
8...and folks drove up from as far away as Des Moines and Wichita.
9It was a very moving tribute any way you look at it .
10I wish you could've been there.
11But now that all the excitement is over and the smoke has cleared ...
12...it's just me and my thoughts knocking around in this big old house.
13I believe I mentioned in my previous letter that I was an actuary...
14...at Woodmen of the World Insurance Company.
15If I'm given a man's age, race, profession...
16...place of residence, marital status, and medical history...
17...I can calculate with great probability how long that man will live.
18In my own case, now that my wife has died...
19...there is a 73 percent chance that I will die within nine years...
20... provided that I do not remarry .
21Here's an opportunity, one on three. A backhand shot, and score!
22All I know is...
23...I've got to make the best of whatever time I have left.
24Life is short, Ndugu.
25And I can't afford to waste another minute.

Por qué vale la pena

He measures his own remaining years like a risk table, and the calm is what hurts.

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