My best friend David Carly, was twenty when his father died and left him over 2 million in his inheritance. Now Dave had sometimes been different from all of us. We would bring twenty dollars and get together and find the fastest way to spend it. Not Dave, he would get his money, how much ever it was, and half would go in his bank account, and the other half he would toss in towards what ever we were about to do. His Pops was that kind, and his kin were the wealthiest family I knew personally.
So Dave took his cash and procured the electric space heaters company. Now that was 1978. By about 1990 or so, that same company was worth about ten times what he payed for it. His electric space heater investment had payed off, and payed off large. We stayed in touch over the years and he got betrothed to Cathy, had seven children, including Michael, who was a real smart son.
By now, 2017, John was pretty much running things at the Brightburns electric space heater company, and they were doing very good. The country had just barely started to rebuild from the second great depression of 2011. Dave and I were spending a lot of time together currently, and since George had been killed, George was another one of our good lifetime friends, our families had been seeing a lot of each other.
George and his wife had lost there lives in a truck accident just a few days ago, and it had done wonders to bring the old friends back together. We would sit around the portable electric space heater and talk about the old times and catch up on the years past, and as I saw it this was what living was about.