“Today, I will explain to my healthy transplanted heart why, in what may be a matter of days or weeks at best, she — well, we — will die.”
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Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life
“The singer-songwriter believes that we are deeply flawed, impermanent creatures who can sometimes do extraordinary things.”
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All True At Once
You made a fool of the words “feminine” and “masculine” — you were neither, you were both.
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Walking Off Grief on the Appalachian Trail
“Every hiker is called to the trail for a different reason, but we all share a common goal: We all want to finish.”
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What We Search For
“What they searched for wouldn’t look like a body, not anymore.”
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The Fight of My Life
“When my wife and daughter were killed in Iran’s downing of Flight PS752, my life was thrown into total darkness.”
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Technology That Lets Us “Speak” to Our Dead Relatives Has Arrived. Are We Ready?
“Digital clones of the people we love could forever change how we grieve.”
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Haunting the Archive
“The media’s obsession with my mother changed my relationship to grief.”
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Lucky’s Last Run
“One dog and two complete strangers set out to run across America.”
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“I Am In Between”: A Q&A with Sorayya Khan
Author Sorayya Khan on what it means to grow up between two cultures, and on mothering and being mothered in a global world.