I held my father's hand as he lay dying in his hospice bed. When he passed, I glanced over at the Victrola where he had played his beloved 78 records for years.
As blood and flush are falling through my father's face, gauzy sheet of death folding over, I know that I have lost him -- his sorrow, joy and fire gone out -- leaving but one cinder on the Victrola.
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