It was April 6, 2007. JW had been just discharged after spending almost 24 hours in the ER. He had been diagnosed with a pinched nerve and had been given a prescription for pain medication. Our plan was to take JW down to our home in Southern Maryland where we would be able to nurse him back to health and follow through on our plans to celebrate as a family both Easter and his brother's birthday. Our first stop was at the CVS Pharmacy on Columbia Road in Adams Morgan, DC in order to allow JW to get the pain prescription filled.
This CVS was the last place JW went to in Adams Morgan. Less than 12 hours after he went into that storefront, JW was dead.
The first picture above is how the CVS Pharmacy appeared on April 6, 2007. The second photo is how it appears today (the pharmacy actually moved across the street and up the block several years ago).
The photos are a fitting contrast of then and now. Much the same way there is a void in the storefronts on Columbia RD in JW's beloved Adams Morgan, so too there is a tremendous void in the lives of all those who love John so very much.
To quote W.B. Yeats, "What made us dream that he could comb grey hair?"
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