Jimmy

“He was totally casual, like I’d come across him lounging on a beach.”

Jimmy Flynn died on Christmas night.

I last saw him in November as I was coming out of the Cambridge Multi-Service Center, where I’d been working on my rental assistance application with the housing liaison.

There was a guy half-sitting, half-lying on the sidewalk, propped up against the wall. It took me a minute to realize it was Jimmy.

He was looking r…