Last cigarette: Sunday 2 November 2003, 7:35 PM…
I chose this weekend for a reason. It was approximately twenty-five years ago — Halloween, 1978 — that I really started smoking, at age fourteen. That night, I bought my first pack of Marlboros from the slimy guy at the corner store for fifty-five cents, and I’ve been engaging in this lethal pastime ever since. That’s almost as long as Mark has been ALIVE, which is truly frightening. It was time to stop…
To Duncan: my thoughts are with you today…