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Scenes from a deathbed.

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Jan 12, 2024
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My father died on January 11, 2023, at 3:30 a.m. This is the essay I wrote a week later after watching the slow, maddening, beautiful thing happen in person. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to say nice things after it ran. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to welcome me into the parental death club. There was genuine warmth there.

So, grief. I experienced …

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