Of all the things you don’t see every day, this is one you see even less often than that. CNN entertainment columnist Todd Leopold recently wrote an article lamenting the death of Aldo Kelrast, an odd little character from the “Mary Worth” comic strip. Frankly, I have a hard time believing that anyone would read any of the soap opera styled strips that have been running in the daily papers since before I was born, but I know there’s a subset of American society that wakes up each morning breathless with anticipation over the next installment of “Apartment 3G”. For all I know, you might be one of them, and I just thought you might be be interested in knowing that you aren’t alone in your appreciation of the genre.

But I want to — I must — talk about something else.

Aldo Kelrast is dead, and attention must be paid.

He wasn’t anything special, this Kelrast fellow. Yes, his last name is an anagram of “stalker.” Yes, he looked like Captain Kangaroo. Yes, he could be annoying and socially awkward.

But did he have to die?

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