On November 10, 2008 we said goodbye to Phillip Dean Hardwick.
He was born a month before I graduated from high school?!
I asked one of the guys at the World’s Greatest Hardware Tool Store after I saw the notice on the door. His reply, slow in coming and in a thickened voice: “Don’t mess with drugs.” Always seemed like a fun-loving, easy-going kid, perhaps too fun-loving in the end. Too young for this, at any rate.