From 100 Lives (Condensed)

 As a baby, he laughed all the time. He kept laughing through elementary school and middle school. In high school, classroom learning became the dead time between his social education in the halls. In preparation for the SAT, he gave full attention to his hair. After graduation he went to beauty school, opened his own shop and became an accomplished and sought-after beautician in his hometown. One day on his way to work, he was knocked from his scooter, killed instantly by a drunk driver. His obituary reported, “… he was a beloved hairdresser with a bubbly sense of humor, and a Baptist.”