Those who've read the Kritzer books know about my uneasy relationship with my parents, especially my mother. Someday I suppose I'll write about their last few years - my mother died of Hodgkin's Disease in 1974 (had she lived one more year to see The First Nudie Musical I'm quite certain THAT would have killed her), and my father died in 1977, I think (maybe 78). She was sixty-nine when she went, he was seventy-five. My mother's sister is still alive, and turned 100 last year.