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From Fan to Friend: The Unlikely Friendship Between Pico Iyer and Leonard Cohen

Death, Sex & Money

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Is There Anything I Can Do to Help My Mother?

I was really glad I could be in New York City which in certain ways seems like the centre of the world. During the pandemic I was largely staying with my mother who died during the pandemic and soon after she was turning 90 and I'm her new child. It's moments like that when you realise my resume is not going to help. My bank accounts no use at all. The only thing probably I could bring to that is what I got from living quietly. In other words, it's that inner savings account or internal resources that are really all we have to bring to life whether life is a forest fire or pandemic or an aging parent. That's what I probably dreamed of

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