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“Because,” he said, “she is the only weight I ever wanted to carry.”

The dockworkers, for the first time in living memory, did not use his nickname. They stood in silence, caps in hands, as the priest spoke of a man who had loved greatly and lost greatly and never once complained. grosse fesse

What they didn't see was what he did every Thursday night. “Because,” he said, “she is the only weight

That is when they saw it.