'Spoils' and 'Happy Birthday,1951' are the best in my opinion.

In the first few months of 2007 I was happy to find out that Kurt Vonnegut was going to be speaking at a nearby university. Needless to say, I made plans to attend-the guy is my favorite author and was already 85. I really just wanted to shake his hand and say 'Thank you for the hope' while I still had the chance.

He passed away 2 months before I would have seen him talk. Thankfully, a lot of what he had to say was already written down.

So it goes.