"We didn't get a Christmas card from Becker."
"Hmm. Maybe he didn't make it through the year."
"The Andrews also didn't send us a card. They're a few years older than us, you know. Eighty-five or eighty-six."
"Hmm. Maybe neither of them made it through the year."
"You see, when you're our age, if you don't hear from somebody for a while, there's a good chance they're dead."