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Speaking of Women
tell me if the lovers are losers … tell me if any get more than the lovers … in the dust … in the cool tombs. Carl Sandburg, Cool Tombs Recently a dear friend lost her beloved husband to leukemia. … Continue reading →
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“Absolutely Normal”
“Absolutely Normal” We were in Riverside, California, a few years back. Jerry’s mother, my mother-in-law, was dying. She had always been extremely kind to me. And she was having a very hard time of it. It is hard to get … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Conversions: A Philosophic Memoir", absolute and relative, absolutes, adolescence, adult friendship, celebrities, child development, cynicism, death and dying, dream visitation, editing, emotional cripples, explanatory hypotheses, filial piety, Freud, grief, heroic measures, hospice, Jewish essence, manuscripts, morality, normality, Oedipus complex, oxymorons, parent-child relations, parenting, personalities, posthumous publication, publication, trust, truth, writer's block
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