This was a really wonderful article Michael, and thank you for the "eulogy" to my editing craftsmanship, as Linz has described it! Truth be told, I got so swept up in what you wrote I forgot all about Linz's suggestion to break it up--so the decision to run it in its entirety was a little serendipitous. This article is one of the gems of SOLO ... thank you.
Very brave, even though I'm sure you didn't intend it to be so. And you're older than my father, Michael, and all the others, so could you all please tell me what to call you? Just a first-name thing sounds too presumptuous