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of getting older is getting scarier by the minute. Yet another classmate of mine has died this year.

Schwietert went to school with me from the first grade onward. The last time I saw him was in 1993, at my 20-year reunion. He could have been an actor; he was that good-looking. It shocked the hell out of me.

At that time one of his closest friends and yet another classmate of mine had committed suicide just months before, and Schwietert wrote a nice little remembrance in the reunion memory book.

What a goddamned shame to go that young.

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