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The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the ...more

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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perisha...more

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I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

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I put the word "diagnosis" in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a "diagnosis" led to a "cure," or in fact to any outcome other tha...more

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When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.