death

It’s said that one of the simplest and saddest stories is Ernest Hemingway’s “For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” I thought about those six words as I sorted through my sister’s clothes.

He died a violent death. I saw him myself, flopping between wooden blades, his head bent back strangely.

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Mindel and Maria were young teenagers when the horrors occurred—but they remembered the tiniest details with crystal-clear intensity.

In the benign but powerful reign of the Beatles, Cynthia Lennon was the proverbial First Lady.

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A "perfect storm."

Together we are invincible, I said in the aftermath, my body humming pleasantly. We were many things, but we were not invincible.