Jerimiah Ferretwise has been around as long as I've been on the FML. And the FML itself is now without a member. There is a hole, an emptiness that I will wake up to each morning when I read the FML until I heal and the reality sets in that he is "not gone". Sometimes, a ferret somehow bonds and melts together with an individual as one personality in my mind's eye. So what happens is that I simply cannot think of one without the other. And when one of them passes away, it hurts. It almost seems like a piece of that person, as I know them, has been taken away from me when their little half leaves. It's going to take me quite a while to fathom Alicia without a Jerimiah. I'll have to rebuild a whole new image, no doubt. But what I cannot imagine during the hurt is that the future image will still include Alicia with Jerimiah ... just a very different Alicia and Jerimiah. Wolfy [Posted in FML issue 5260]