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Dressed in his whites, Eric looked like the sailor on the Cracker Jack box. He'd dug out his smallest uniform. The cancer had taken so much of his weight. Eric’s wife planned for months, secretly worming details out of her husband about his idea of the perfect retirement ceremony. The ceremony took place on the deck of the battleship Wisconsin. As her husband stood tall, Geodee was thankful she'd been able to pull it off - that for this day, for this moment, Eric could stop thinking about the fact that he was dying.