Original Commentary

Now for some backstory to the backstory. When I started seriously thinking about how Lemon Technology ran, I was working for this company. One of my co-workers was the owner's grandson (let's call him Junior). His father (Senior) was the manager of that department. Not a department head or even a high-level manager. He managed about ten of us. All three - grandfather, father, and son - had the same last name. But Senior's position and the few details he told me about his youth didn't add up with him being the son of the company founder. Or he was a serious black sheep back in those days. The most reasonable explanation I had was that Senior took his wife's name and kept it after the divorce. I have no idea if that's true or not.
Interestingly, he was a vice president. But so were three other people in that department. About a third of the employees were vice presidents, so I'm not sure it actually meant anything. There were about three or four people between him and the actual Executive Vice Presidents, which is a lot in a fairly small company. One of Junior's uncles was an executive vice president. Or family must've just played favorites. Anyhow, it was something that was in my mind when I was designing the Lemon Technology power structure - Terrence

Modern Commentary
I'm glad that Isabel wrote the follow-up/epilogue here because having it end on a hug is a bit anticlimactic.

Did this story do what we set out for it to do? I mean, kinda. The goal was to get Brisbane and Kimberly a bit more active and it succeeded but not in the way I originally meant (see next chapter). Instead it set Kimberly and her mother in a conflict that would culminate the comic.

But that's kinda how it goes. You can't go back to the past. All you can do is tear down the past to create your own future. That's what half of You Say it First is about, really. - Terrence