The Companion Who Refused To Be Left Behind

A Special Friend Or?

John O'Neill
Know Thyself, Heal Thyself
3 min readMar 20, 2021

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What is my first memory of this special life-long companion of mine? Hard to say really, it is as if one day he was just there, waiting to be acknowledged. Certainly by the time I started high school, he was with me all the time. He was irritating and had no sense of humor. I tried my best to leave him behind whenever I could, but he was tenacious.

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John O'Neill
Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

Retired human services executive, living in Massachusetts near Boston, trying to be a better human being each day than the day before.