My cousin Adam cast aside his earthly restraints on December 31st, heading off into the vast spiritual unknown to seek out whatever new adventures are in store for him.  His body was found at his cabin by his friend, Jim Hollenbeck, who came up and told me.

After talking with Jim, I called the Sheriff to see what needed to be done.  Since he was already dead, I was looking for the “non-emergency” phone number, but I couldn’t find one, so I called 911.  Turns out they consider a dead body an emergency even if it has been dead for a while, so there were great goings-on to find an available Sheriff (we don’t have many in the county).  I met him on the road about 2 hours later, and we went up to the cabin to see what was what.

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