Obituary
Thomas Yao Ting Kuo, epicure, master chef, exotic car enthusiast, globe trotter, road tripper, and cat and cyclotron whisperer, died on August 19, 2023. He was Yao Ting to his Chinese-speaking friends and Tom to his English-speaking friends. He had two birthdays—though the “wrong” one was on his American passport, the real one, October 16th, 1935, shared a birth month with his son, Augustine Kuo, who he always called “Augie.”
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