a touching elegy for linus the rat.

excerpt:
"...We buried him in a tissue box decorated with cherry blossoms. Appropriate because he smelt like warm cherry blossoms, and loved sleeping in empty tissue boxes. We put in a parcel of yoggieballs for the journey, and sealed the box. We wrote his name and ours on the box, along with our love, and buried him in a shady spot under a camellia bush in a quiet part of the garden..."