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When someone dies, you're supposed to say something. SOMEONE is supposed to say something. Someone is supposed to summarize this person, prove that they existed, that they mattered. But what do you say when a complicated person dies after a complicated life? Nora’s brother-in-law struggled for years with severe mental illness that made being alive difficult. When he dies suddenly at the age of 42, she finds herself asking these kinds of questions.
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When someone dies, you're supposed to say something. SOMEONE is supposed to say something. Someone is supposed to summarize this person, prove that they existed, that they mattered. But what do you say when a complicated person dies after a complicated life? Nora’s brother-in-law struggled for years with severe mental illness that made being alive difficult. When he dies suddenly at the age of 42, she finds herself asking these kinds of questions.
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