When I was 13 my grandfather Adam died. He had lived with my grandmother in a little beach house in Point Pleasant, NJ for over 20 years. He had been a welder most of his life, working in the Newark Machine Shop of the American Can Company. Back then they didn’t worry about things like ‘ventilation’ or ‘asbestos.’ After he was laid off with no pension, grandpa Adam suffered from extensive skin diseases, underwent double bypass surgery for a heart attack, and eventually died from complications from an allergic reaction to his medication
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