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It was 1993 and Ken had just started a new job in Washington, D.C.

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 curve 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 outside curve 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 bus and just lean a little further out,

and that bus could take me out of all this misery. And just as I had that thought, he continued,

I looked up and in the oncoming group of people on the left-hand side of the sidewalk, there was this

one woman. It seemed she quite deliberately looked right at me. She saw it out my eyes. And when

she caught them, she just gave me this beautiful,

wonderful smile. She didn't say anything to me, Ken said. She just smiled at me. And that one

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