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Perhaps you won’t find this worthwhile, but John, a.k.a. Sally, met his father for a game of bingo when he died. His father’s mother, Sally, a.k.a. Sal, slept soundly that night, after opening and digesting a can of sardines. Sal, a.k.a. John, was a hard-edged man, but he liked bingo and his son had a soft spot for him. She lost the thought of his tears in the brine of her sardines, as he had eaten sardines so often throughout his life. Her sister-in-law said that when her son had died, it had been so hard for him, the loss of her son. One doesn’t know how to stand in a situation like that of leaving his son behind. That is why the carnival and the sardines and the bingo were now her favorite things, too.