The ability for someone to laugh more than another is directly proportional to their ability to love as a human.

If this statement is true, then Billy Cherry loves like few people on Earth. Tell him the corniest jokes, and this man erupts into a cackling laughter that’s so infectious, you can’t help but put your camera down and laugh with him.

Maybe it’s the gap in his teeth that lets him laugh like that or the 50-something years he’s spent on Earth living each day as his last. It also could be the stress of having an extended family live in the small, two-story house located in a less- than-desirable neighborhood.

Billy doesn’t mind the set backs life has given him. He just laughs them off.

Carl Kiilsgaard is a sophomore photojournalism major form Corballis, Oregon. Reach him at carl.kiilsgaard@wku.edu.