The air was cold and still on Gordon and Brown streets when they found him, an older gent, unmoving in his car. The call came in around 4:30 in the afternoon.
Someone had seen him, noticed he wasn’t right, and did what a good citizen does. They called it in.
Carson City Fire and the sheriff’s deputies rolled up, knowing what they would find. It doesn’t take long in a place like this to realize when a man has passed on.
The paramedics confirmed it. Sheriff Ken Furlong said there was no reason to suspect anything foul.
The man was old, and the body gave out. That’s how it is.
“The older gentleman is deceased. There’s nothing suspicious at this point and time,” Furlong said.
They’ll investigate, of course. That’s the job.
But death comes, and it comes for a lot of folks who never had a fair shake. Some worked their whole lives to be forgotten, while others sat in their car and faded away.
The Old Blog in the Desert 
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