My Friend Joe

I’ve written about Joe before.  We go back about a dozen years, or so.  Joe had leukemia and wanted his birth family to get tested to see if they might be matches and could potentially provide him with life-saving marrow.  They refused.  That’s how we got to know each other.   His story appeared in the Hamilton Spectator, my talk show producer Peggy and I were bowled over by it and we gave him a call.  The rest is history.  …