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Whilst the world mourns a man who lost his battle with cancer yesterday, myself, my colleagues, and a couple of families and a few other men and women in the West Midlands are mourning the loss of another man who lost his battle with cancer yesterday.

Steve was a dev team leader where I currently work, he was in his early thirties, a few years ago he got married and just as the two of them should have been looking forward to their life ahead as a family he got the news he had a rare form of cancer.

He has fought it for years, very, very nearly died a number of times over the last couple, had a hell of a lot of other people's blood pumped into him, but last night was the limit he could do.

He was a wonderful man, one of the nicest people I have ever met, intelligent, witty, and his wife was lovely too. He has not been at work much over the last two or three years and I have missed him, the news shouldn't have come as a shock, but it has, massively.

I don't know how to process the news at the moment, typing this with tears streaming down my face, grief is a very selfish thing, but I am absolutely gutted for his wife.

I shall raise a glass of Hobgoblin for my mate Steve, and then a few more.

Rose | [Rose]
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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