To address your former query: He is not coming, sadly.

To address your latter query: Yes, we did...or rather, they did to themselves, but we were supportive.

Dr. Dave is also a casualty, unfortunately.

Can you play the mouth harp, Ken? We need some help in the band.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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