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Fathers and Time

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The Purity of Grief

"I filmed the hospital this afternoon to say goodbye, but you were no longer lucid. Elizabeth the nurse held the phone against your ear and I could hear your breathing or perhaps the rasping of the oxygen machine," he writes. "If you are too tired now and in too much pain, then you should stop fighting and let go... Whatever happens, it's okay. You were a good father."

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