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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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The Loss of a Child

i think just as it' said that an amputee still has sensation in the missing limb, so too the missing from a civil war, from death. My mother died when i was 11 of cancer. There's not a day when i don't think about that. I've been without a mother. It's coming up on a 57 yearsno, that's way too long to be without aMother. But also, her death transform me. Because i write about people who are dead. And it's really a conversation with a long departed person who left before i was 12 years old. Ah, so all of us are dealing with the absence of something, and that's the great

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