Over to you.

FIRE AFTERMATH: Fox 16 photo of Papa and Flo.

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But please … Give a word of thanks that my friend, Flo Cato, 85, and Papa, 94, her husband of 70 years, escaped from a fire that devastated their Southwest Little Rock home today. Channel 7’s coverage pictured Flo at her upbeat, indomitable best. Things can be replaced, Flo said, and turned to comfort a great-grandchild. 

I’m not so sure that there’s a replacement for Flo, one of the city’s great, succinct letter-to-the-editor writers. Thank goodness she’s not ready for epitaphs yet. But she fits the elements of one of my favorite epitaphs: “She was a lady. She was a Democrat. She was a Baptist.” That IS Flo.

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I should add: Flo says Papa grows the best tomatoes anywhere. May the peapatch return.

Also, from Fox 16:

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While they’ve lost most of their belongings, they feel they have plenty to be thankful for. “You know the Bible says he’ll give his angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways,” says Flora. “He was keeping us. Them angels were watching over us.”

Again, wingnuts, Flo is a Democrat. Looks like He’ll let a few of us slide by.

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ON THE JUMP: Google preserves a Flo Cato letter from the Huckabee era. I love Flo.

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