Brother Sebastian's

Nebraska · United States · Hospital

Bill Wolcott dined at the same seat in the lounge almost every evening for years, in a smoking jacket and ascot, until the cancer made solid food.

Brother Sebastian's in Omaha, Nebraska has a regular who never quite stopped being one. Bill Wolcott was an older gentleman who ate here almost every evening for years. He had his habits and everyone knew them. He wore a formal smoking jacket with an ascot tie. He always ate in the lounge, and always in the same seat.

Wolcott was diagnosed with cancer. The treatment was painful, but he kept coming, even during periods when he was in hospital. When he reached the point where he could no longer swallow solid food, the kitchen staff pureed his meals so that he could still take his place in the lounge. Around that time he began covering his head with a towel in public, and still he came.

What staff and diners report now is confined to that part of the room and to that chair. This is a haunting told with unusual affection, by people who remember the man rather than the story, and the kitchen's decision to puree his food is the detail that everyone repeats first.

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Where is Brother Sebastian's located?

Brother Sebastian's is in Nebraska, United States.