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Published: 2007-04-19 07:30:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 1477; Favourites: 47; Downloads: 0
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Description I think i posted this before - he was my next door neighbour - this is a re-edit.

John is my ex next-door-neighbour -He moved out last June when his wife died. I, unfortuately, found her body when John had been brought back home from a long-term hospital stay.
The ambulance driver could get no reply from Patricia, so they rang my bell and asked if I had seen her. I hadn't for a few days, but notived the top floor bedroom window was open so offered to get my ladders and climb in and open the door to let them in. (John is blind and diabetic}. We all assumed Pat was out shopping or at a friends, but she was dead at the top of the stairs - John couldn't be allowed in the house and so after many hours sat outside his home of 23 years, the social services found him emergency accommodation.
The time a month earlier when I had gone in to pick John up after a fall, was the last time he set foot in there. Eerily, he was naked when i had to lift him, as was Patricia, and in exactly the same spot!
I tell this now as some kind of catharsis as it affected me very deeply at the time.

This photo of John was in the nursing home a week later.
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Comments: 21

lustforlight [2007-10-20 07:46:33 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful !

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nullwert [2007-08-05 08:02:49 +0000 UTC]

...

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straightfromcamera [2007-08-05 07:43:52 +0000 UTC]

so sad i dont think a photo and story have touched me this much.

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game-flea [2007-05-22 10:55:02 +0000 UTC]

touching story

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E-volve-E [2007-05-19 22:37:48 +0000 UTC]

OMG Andrew.. .

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floratatouille [2007-05-10 22:20:39 +0000 UTC]

this reminds me really bad memories when my grandma who was living with us was diying, beacause of a cancer...

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floratatouille [2007-05-10 22:19:39 +0000 UTC]

O_O

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chirilas [2007-04-28 03:43:17 +0000 UTC]

sad

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glorifiedsnapshots [2007-04-23 19:17:49 +0000 UTC]

my heart....

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ReminiscentScreams [2007-04-23 15:57:52 +0000 UTC]

wow this is a beautifully frightening photograph.. you captured this man extremely well... wow.. i dont know what to say..

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Metalgear132 [2007-04-23 02:54:30 +0000 UTC]

I remember when you first submitted this picture. I was amazing then and still amazing now.

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imxanxillusion [2007-04-21 04:14:44 +0000 UTC]

Oh my

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TreLore [2007-04-20 01:23:57 +0000 UTC]

Really a great Job

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NefertariLuna [2007-04-19 21:57:03 +0000 UTC]

Grotesque expressionism you're doing here... Quite Brechtian if I may add!

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sonic-tonic [2007-04-19 13:26:03 +0000 UTC]

Please tell us the story that goes along with this?

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saspunemcuvinte [2007-04-19 13:03:06 +0000 UTC]

i remember this..and it was very touching back then....it's good you re-edited it

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Ghost2867 [2007-04-19 07:56:18 +0000 UTC]

Did he get beat up?

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andrewfphoto In reply to Ghost2867 [2007-04-20 06:56:00 +0000 UTC]

no, he was old and dying - well, he is dead now. I can't find the image i posted with the story, but i will post a link when i do.

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pedribeiro [2007-04-19 07:41:04 +0000 UTC]

Very expressive!

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TheQueenOfSherds [2007-04-19 07:32:51 +0000 UTC]

supergallifragelistigexpialigetic!

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Amari-Chan [2007-04-19 07:32:03 +0000 UTC]

Holy f-*beep*
o_o

~Amari

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