He asked Michael if he might be interested in writing Pauline's obituary.

It was funny because what he submitted was beautifully written, but it kind of left out all of the basics that need to go in obituaries.

I guess he'd never written an obituary before.

And so I kind of had to send it back to him and say, okay, we need to know a little bit more here about how did she get to Provincetown? What did she do before that? And what How did she manage to create this store? And he was happy to revise.

I felt a little embarrassed about asking him to rewrite something.

The guy won a Pulitzer Prize.

But he really wanted it to be right.

Ed says that sometimes he gets complaints.