He didn't want the hypocrites coming out of church and ambling over, trying to save his salty soul. The thing about J.T., gone 32 years now, is not that he did everything right, which he didn't. It was that he showed up every single time:• At whatever house where he was doing handyman work to eke out a living post-disability retirement from the cookie-loading night shift at the Nabisco warehouse on Shall Street on the east side of town. His mom didn't believe it. was beside me in the principal's office as I demanded to know why he'd been told I was absent.

Source: Washington Post June 19, 2022 18:51 UTC