SCARY COOL SAD GOODBYE 50

The torch singer, the undertaker, & me.

“It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful.”

My father works in printing, like his father before him and his father before him; the tradition dies, I guess, with me. This was a real Chicago business, begun in 1919 on South Dearborn, then onto Wacker Drive, where just 90 years later I’d find employ ‘round the corner at a Chinese fa…