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My father is a great man, he's the controller (basically the treasurer plus other duties) of Color Point LLC, a greenhouse that grows flowers for Lowe's and a few other small places.
The most outstanding thing about dad is that he developed a rare disease, called pemphigus, when I was a freshman in high school. Pemphigus is an auto-immune disease that attacks the skin, leaving 2nd-degree-burn-like (as in the same pain and look) sores all over your skin. He underwent chemotherapy, and spent months in hospitals. While in the hospital, he contracted a staph infection in his hip, making walking painful and at times impossible. He nearly died multiple times (they had to recessitate him at least 3 times) right around Christmas when I was 16. He has made almost a complete recovery, and the disease has been in remission for more than two years now. Most importantly, he has a new appreciation for life that gives him something hard to find in anybody.
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"I'm telling you, we need to get rid of a few people or a million."
-Maddox
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