[Para. 1]: "It is an honour to write a tribute to a colleague, collaborator, and friend R.M. Vaughan, who died in 2020. I knew R.M. as a personal friend who I visited in Toronto, Montreal, Fredericton, and Berlin. I called on him regularly as an educator, interviewer, and performer for a variety of events in Toronto, including at Ryerson University, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, and the Gardiner Museum. For a while we shared a home in Toronto."