thing twice, it dies again, this time, forever." "Young Ned felt responsible not only for his mother's death  but the death of Chuck's father." "His feelings of guilt were amplified, because he too was in love." "The next time young Ned would see the girl named Chuck  she would be dead." "Unlike Chuck, young Ned still had a father." " After a brief mourning period..." " I'll be back." "... he would deposit Ned at the Longborough School for Boys." "After her own father's death  Chuck was fostered by Aunts Lily and Vivian  a renowned synchronized-swimming duo and sister neurotics  who helped her build a new home, bee by bee." "It was Aunt Lily who found the ad on the pages of theThrifty Nickel  in a fleeting wisp of something resembling maternal instinct." "Just wanted you to stop staring at that spot where your father died." "Young Chuck rebuilt her home by building a new home  for a homeless queen and her hive." "The bees thrived." "So did Chuck." "And while Chuck thrived  Ned waited for his father to bring him home  and waited  and waited." "Just as Chuck remembered how home felt  Ned tried not to forget what home was." "He held on to it the only way he could  and became  the Pie-Maker." "And the girl named Chuck became dead." "She was 28 years, 24 weeks, 3 days, 11 hours  and 51 minutes old when murdered on a Tahitian