User blog comment:WhitePinoy/Blog Update 4/@comment-31027411-20140523061818/@comment-3242362-20140524030522

@WhitePinoy: Thanks for the birthday greetings! As for what happened to Kirkland, well, a cursory search of the Shoutbox (User blog:Agent M/Shoutbox V.2) and his blogs didn't turn up anything, so going from memory:

Kirkland contracted some sort of horrid illness. This lead to him dropping a lot of weight and having to spend some time in the hospital. For the past year or two, he's been working his way back to health, including trying to regain the weight he lost.

At least, that's what I recollect of what happened. I am NOT the most reliable narrator here.