Book - Pigeonholes

Have you looked at someone for the first time and automatically put them into a stereotype or pigeonhole?  Joe Candide used to, when he was young, but as he matured, he began to realise that life and reality was a far more complex story.   In the moments before he leaves this life, Joe gets to see with clarity what all the people around him during his life meant and what pigeonholes they all inhabited.   Although he never thought he belonged in any of them, he may actually have found comfort in the end that there was one tailor-made for him...