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Kathleen Delano's avatar

Elden Carnahan was one of the finest men I was honored to call “friend.”

Elden welcomed me as a Loser. He befriended me and took me under his wing.

Elden told me to call him “Perry,” as in Perry White, Clark Kent’s editor. He could pronounce any word backwards. He was a well-educated auto-didactic genius.

Elden was introspective; he changed his opinion when given a good argument to do so.

Everyone says someone wonderful and special was “one in a million.”

Elden was the only Elden on Earth. There was no other like him among a million or a billion people. He was unique, a word I use only as intended.

Elden asked me to shave him “ear to ear” during my penultimate visit.

It felt like a sacred act.

He loved his family fiercely. My deepest condolences to Elden’s lovely bride, daughters April and Erin, and his grandchildren.

And if I write more, I’d slip into maudlin, at which Elden would scoff.

I was lucky to know him.

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Kitchen Cynic's avatar

I love the picture of Gene in the fake money. He looks like he’d have been first in line for the guillotine in the French Revolution.

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