We said we would, and so we have:

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You were a favorite of visitors, a most social beast. You were always with me when I was working in the home office. We will miss you, every day.

You were a good kitty, Kabo. Go and find Nizel.

You realized then that you were not being abandoned and decided that the new place was terrific. Two subsequent moves kept you with your people and were not cause for much anguish.

You were a good daddy to the kitten we brought in in 2019.

Our move to a new house in 2013 required you to have an extended stay in a kennel, away from us. Upon arriving in the new abode, you ran to the basement and hid in the pile of remnant carpeting, making piteous sounds until one of us came down to find you.

You were a good kitty. You came home with us only because the two young women who got to meet you before we did heard you calling plaintively for your sister and decided to pass. We had hoped to adopt the pair of you and did.

A teaser, I suppose; with twenty-six previously-unpublished cryptics completed, we at Excruciverbiage® anticipate publication of volume VI and a compendium of Volumes V and VI, in late March or early April.

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The old cat naps in his soft bed, which is next to me on the office desk. We listen to classical music and compose cryptic crosswords.

Publication of original book-the-sixth and a double volume are expected in early 2025.

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