A sweet goodbye to a fellow runner at the end of Jim Hage's column "[1] in the Washington Post a few days ago:

TRUE BLUE: Top age-group competitor Ray Blue, 84, of Oxon Hill, died Nov. 10 after a long illness. Unable to compete in recent years, Blue volunteered at races. Always an iconoclast, Blue requested that there be no obituary, no funeral and no tears. Fond memories remain.

_{(cf. Deep Sympathies (2001-05-30), McGs (2002-02-28), Leet Obit (2004-06-10), Death and Life (2005-01-02), Obit Code (2007-11-15), ...) - ^z - 2008-11-25}