Conrad Jones was sixty-six years old when his partner of forty-two years died of a massive heart attack. Joshua Steiner was shoveling snow off their driveway in Astoria, Queens, New York. It was still snowing, and it was cold and blustery outside, but he chose to ignore his partner’s advice to wait until the snow stopped.
“It’ll be too heavy then,” Josh explained. “I’d rather do two or three light loads than one heavy one.”
Josh had just celebrated his seventy-first birthday the day