Edward Willy felt accomplished today. After 30 years of working at the local coffee shop, he can finally feel like he had done something right, that he was proud of. Edward walked across the halls into the field, where the ceremony took place. He had finally graduated high school, and today was the day he received his diploma. Edward was an old man, he wasn’t tall, only 170 cm, he wasn’t strong, either, and he had myopia. He usually wars casual striped shirts when going out, accompanied by black pants.
He would go out with his friends every afternoon, who had also dropped out of high school. One of his friends, worked at his dad’s gas station, another one, works at Joe’s Grocery. He would hang out at the convenience store with them one day, or go to a party with them another. Either way, that was the life he thought he wanted. That was until he was 20, his mother died in a car accident, and his father shortly died after of cancer. His wife died at the age of 40 from pneumonia.
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It was one day he was walking on the street, with the intent of going to the grocers that he found a place in need of workers, the coffee shop. He’s been working at the coffee shop for as long as he can remember.
He was on the lower end of income; his family wasn’t rich to begin with. Edward Willy still lived in the same apartment, on the 7th floor. Not a big apartment, just a 1 bedroom apartment with a kitchenette and a bathroom. His apartment was as small as a
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