Life Disrupted by Timothy Coutis

My father died in June of 1991. I’d been a bookseller for 15 years and had recently closed 8 of the 12 stores in a small independent chain as Barnes and Noble and Borders opened big ones. I was opening a store for my new employer when I got the call to come home. I didn’t make it in time. 

Mom passed just after Christmas that year. Too busy working to grieve, it seemed there was no way out. In 95, a year after Amazon came online, thanks to a small inheritance I joined a marketing firm as a partner.