'Twas Vincent's ninety-first birthday, and yea, verily was he blest for all his family surrounded him so that they filled the banquet hall of the old city council building.  His friends did travel from distant continents to see him on this glorious occasion, and his children, and his grandchildren, and his great grandchildren, and, in her mother's arms, his newborn great great granddaughter, Zoe, all lined around the edge of the room to give Grand Daddy Vincent a kiss and a hug.