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Paul H. Curtiss Jr., editor emeritus, former editor, and former chairman of the Board of Editors of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, passed away on September 25, 2007. At the time of his death he was receiving hospice care close to the home he had cherished and lived in for close to thirty years, on the banks of the Charles River in South Natick, Massachusetts. The Journal and the entire orthopaedic community suffered a great loss with his passing.