Some years back I had a barber who, over the course of a year, regularly updated me on the events happening in his life.
His story was both amusing and sad; I would regularly be asked to provide updates at dinner meals with friends - and as much as everyone laughed they would pause afterwards to consider the pathos of Vic's circumstance.
I orgininally wrote this as a blog; but have recorded it here as well because I think it's a story worth telling. Vic and Angie are not the real names of the characters; but everything else here is exactly as they told it, or as I experienced it myself.
After-Dinner 
Some years back I had a barber who, over the course of a year, regularly updated me on the events happening in his life.