I'll try to make this story brief. I had a cat many years ago named Miss Calabash. As a kid, I had seen Jimmy Durante perform on a talk show, and he always ended his show with "Goodnight folks, and goodnight Miss Calabash, wherever you are". He kept it pretty much a mystery all his career who Miss Calabash was. So, in the weird way 10 year olds think, I decided then and there that someday I'd name a pet of mine Miss Calabash. So I did.
When I'd had her for about 16 years and she was sick and a week or so away from dying, I had a client come in one day (I worked at home and all my clients knew my cat) and asked how she was doing, then said he'd just heard Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story". That day, the subject was...the origin of Jimmy Durante's Miss Calabash tagline. He told the whole story of how Durante met her as a young man, fell in love but she was already married, so he told her "If I can't have you, I'm going to make you famous.".
After my cat died, I wrote a letter to Paul Harvey and thanked him for, after 16 years, letting me know the origin of my cat's name. His son, who at the time was his main researcher for his dad's show, wrote me a really gracious letter about pets and loss and all. Very nice.
As several of you said, rest in peace.