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S3E3 | Without Malice, Without Triumph (with Edward P Jones, Hilton Als, Amber Gray)

The Paris Review

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The Senility of a Man

Wilhelmina spoke to Father Reardon for many weeks. She would set his cassette recorder on her coffee table. He's taken down my whole life, she told him almost the way a woman might speak in awe of a new boyfriend. Maybe I thought that by his sitting in that chair and doing nothing else, for four years, he made the country what it was, says Wilhelmina.

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