122503 #eel There were other messages. He had been trying to get ahold of us. Now here's the funny part. I had had this image of him as this wild, wily, street-smart guy who was so much braver and less domesticated than us. He didn't need us! He was the cool one! And to discover that, having been unearthed so to speak by us, he actually wanted to talk to us, bad enough that he wasn't too proud to leave multiple messages, well that was just a big reversal of my perception of the way things were.