My mother died last week. Some years ago I was visiting my mother in Canada and I happened to phone Sharon. She told me her husband, Vyt Bakaitis, had just lost his mother. Vyt and I are too old to call ourselves orphans. But Sharon left two motherless children, Ellery and Elena. Elena's first job in high school was working for me at Unmuzzled OX. We get old, we fall apart, we die. Hah, hah!