My mother died of colon cancer one week after my eleventh birthday, and that fact has shaped my life. All that I have become and much that I have not become, I trace directly or indirectly to her death. … In my professional and personal life, I have lived with the awareness of death’s imminence for more than half a century, and labored in its constant presence for all but the first decade of that time.
My mother died of colon cancer one week after my eleventh birthday, and that fact has shaped my life. All that I have become and much that I have not become, I trace directly or indirectly to her death. … In my professional and personal life, I have lived with the awareness of death’s imminence for more than half a century, and labored in its constant presence for all but the first decade of that time.
My mother died of colon cancer one week after my eleventh birthday, and that fact has shaped my life. All that I have become and much that I have not become, I trace directly or indirectly to her death. … In my professional and personal life, I have lived with the awareness of death’s imminence for more than half a century, and labored in its constant presence for all but the first decade of that time.
By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time.
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