I Keep My Heart Inside My Grandfather’s Cigar Box
I keep those old letters to feel their love, but I forbid myself from reading them
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7 min readJan 5, 2020
My grandfather was a haberdasher all his life and, ironically, it was menswear that killed him. Well, sort of — he suffered his final heart attack while he was putting on his tie one morning. Does that count?