At 12:01 09/05/96 -0800, Her Furryousness wrote:

After reviewing the things I have to do and the time I have
to do it in, I regretfully inform the ML that the Taskmistress
has to hang up her cattle prod and store it in the vault in
the Smithsonian where she'll have access to it again in a couple of 
months.  To all of you that I've met and grown to care and admire,
I will still be watching you from afar, reminding you *gently*
to continue the 'fics and make the 'Mistress proud that she
knows you.  Besides, how else can I write my own 'fics if I'm
constantly reading others'?

A 450 pound giant panda wanders out of his magical bamboo grove in his pen
at the Beijing Zoo. The sun has not yet risen as he sits down to munch on
his favorite breakfast. The black and white bear thinks of a special meeting
that will take place later on; a meeting with a dear friend.

As the morning progresses and the warming sun rises higher and higher into
the blue mid-spring sky, the panda watches the metal door to his pen
anxiously. For many weeks now it has rarely failed to open at around
lunchtime, heralding the arrival of his much loved guest.

But today the door the doesn't open.

Nor does it open the next day, or the day after that...


I'll miss you Foxtrot

(pass quickly summer... )

Panda

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