In article <240920050948307810%removeantispam*pkuo@earhlink.net>,   
   Ping Kuo   wrote:   
   >In article , Chris Kern   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> in particular where Owner is and what   
   >   
   >he won't show up until the story is near the end, beside, once he comes   
   >back in the story, he would either be an old man, or the reason Alpha   
   >hasn't heard from him is because he is dead!   
      
   Owner will not necessarily show up. One of the gags in the long-running   
   American TV series, FRASIER, was that a character, Niles's snotty wife,   
   was always absent. She was always talked about, but never ever seen.   
      
      
   Sakari Aaltonen   
      
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