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Jomosapien - my friend Joe

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I made this early on when I started working with digital art and photo manipulation. It's of a coworker, an outwardly cantankerous guy a couple of years my senior. A truly bristly personality. That is until you cracked the shell and found the huge hearted, candy filled center. His prickly surface was there to protect a sensitive soul.

On a job with little financial reward (it pays the bills), we have had a cynical sense of humor in common that helped make many days of our over 18 year association laughable (in a good way).

Yesterday, after years of declining health and one short, yet too tough, battle with lung cancer he died.

Whenever I have been thinking of him since I heard of his passing, I have seen him as this creature I made of him. He was quite a good sport about, and showed great appreciation for, the ridiculousness of it. When I see this image it reminds of the humor and the sadness he carried with him always. It was my privilege to have known him, and to have been able to see him just a few days before his passing.
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co4's avatar
A touching and funny story, sir.