I've had a terrible year for losing family. I've lost both grandmothers, my girlfriend's mother, and at 1AM this morning I got a call that my uncle had passed. Besides me, he was the last pipe man in the family. He was 68, my mother's younger brother, worked as a banker in Washington DC, contracted out his land to corporate tobacco and peanut farming, served as a Rep Virginia and Tennessee back in the 70's, and enjoyed cherry aromatics in his one pipe, a very old, heavily smoked, and well cared for Dunhill. He smoked this pipe on his commutes and in the evenings after dinner. I don't know what brand tobacco it was that he smoked, but my guess is that it was something in bulk from a mall pipe shop. Growing up, it wasn't Christmas till I smelled Uncle Joe's cherry wafting from the den.
As I've heard happening too many times before, he went a few days ago to the doctor with a painful irregularity in his mouth and passed very very quickly after that. He was a teetotaler like the rest of us in the family (our Irish genes are the type that can't process alcohol very well), and he jogged every morning. So guys, don't dick around with anything unusual in your mouth. Not to cause any unneeded stresses in the pipe world, just get anything and everything seen about quickly by your doctor or dentist, ASAP.
So, in remembrance, I fire up the closest thing that I have to a cherry aromatic, Dan's Liberty. I'm not sure it is a true cherry, but it's close enough for me. And, then I will let all of my pipes rest for the day. By missing my pipe, I will be reminded of him all day.
Carry on... :
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As I've heard happening too many times before, he went a few days ago to the doctor with a painful irregularity in his mouth and passed very very quickly after that. He was a teetotaler like the rest of us in the family (our Irish genes are the type that can't process alcohol very well), and he jogged every morning. So guys, don't dick around with anything unusual in your mouth. Not to cause any unneeded stresses in the pipe world, just get anything and everything seen about quickly by your doctor or dentist, ASAP.
So, in remembrance, I fire up the closest thing that I have to a cherry aromatic, Dan's Liberty. I'm not sure it is a true cherry, but it's close enough for me. And, then I will let all of my pipes rest for the day. By missing my pipe, I will be reminded of him all day.
Carry on... :
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