
By Gordon Hopkins
It is hard to say goodbye.It is especially hard to say goodbye to someone who has worked so hard. That someone may have been dumpy and beat-up and made a lot of noise and, near the end, failed more often than succeeded, but that someone still tried. In the end, isn’t that really all we could ask?No, I am not writing my own epitaph, though I am sure the above paragraph, or something like it, will probably end up in my obituary. No, I am talking about my mother’s ’97 Bonneville, known affectionately to one and all as “The Death Trap.”My mother hadn’t driven in a long time. I did the driving for her in the last few years. S...