Man leaves 5,000 thank you

A reclusive, procrastinating man who said he was too shy to get around to thanking the people who made his life worth living has left 5,000 thank you notes — all signed, sealed, and stamped, in his will.

The late Alconi Willmore, 83, will never get to hear his family and friends say “you’re welcome.”

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“He instructed me to put them in the mail the day he died, and I did,” says Coleman D. Norgloss, Willmore’s attorney.

“He was a very gracious man. Some of the notes are four and five pages long, filled with long passages that lyrically express his deepest gratitude.”