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It was 1993 and Ken had just started a new job in Washington DC.

Ken said, while it paid well and gave me some prestige, it really was a miserable job.

My boss in New York was a real tyrant.

Also, at the same time, Ken continued, so many of my friends were either getting sick

or dying from AIDS.

That was an epidemic at the time.

One particular morning in January after all the holiday decorations had come down, it

was bitterly cold outside.

Ken had to go to a business meeting.

But before he left, he got a call from his boss who was angry about something.

Ken also got a call from a friend who revealed to him that he was also dying from AIDS.

So Ken was walking down Wisconsin Avenue coming back from his appointment that also didn't

go well.

And Ken said, I was really feeling miserable.

I just didn't understand the purpose of life at that point.

The sidewalks were all very busy, so Ken was walking on the outside curb of the sidewalk.

As he was walking, the city bus came along.

It came so close to him that Ken could feel it brush the right arm of his coat.

Ken said suddenly, an idea came to me, and that idea was that I could wait on the next

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