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Epikouros: Yes. You are correct about me leaving and then all of those who I had worked with departing in mass. It was a couple of years after that when Mr. Despicable kicked his last trash can. The architectural community in Albuquerque was still of a size where each person in the field knew enough people that something like someone croaking in the office would become common knowledge fairly quickly. Something like Mr. Despicable, who had hired and fired a decent percentage of the community and was hated by most, dropping dead in the middle of a rant caused the jungle drums to begin beating immediately.

I was living in a different city by the time that it happened, but by a strange coincidence, later bought a mobile home from a person who had been working in the office at the "time of death". He was the one who told me about the story and chuckled about the comment. He said that everyone broke into a sort of nervous laugh at the time, but then when they realized just how appropriate the nervousness would have been ten minutes earlier, began to give full laughs out loud about leaving early.

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