Lynn cancelled my ballet class on Sundays due to the incessant fear of cats she shared only with her Great Aunt Anastasia who now resided in Greece with her duck and broken hearing aid. The nurse, who bathes her and listens to her fragrant stories of mystery, romance and stale potato chips, is an elderly woman with false teeth and a true sense of grief for missing and exploited macadamia nuts. In the year 1974 she single-handedly created the Lost of Macadamia Institute in the East Coast, the first of such institutes to flourish around the world.