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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Josh Marshall

    Roger Angell once wrote a heartbreaking essay about being impossibly old, so old he outlived not just his generation but the generation after him, much of his family and almost all his friends. That essay came out nearly 8 years ago.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1458267819569729541 …

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    Roger Angell turned 101 in September.
    7:02 PM - 9 Nov 2021
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      1. Robert Herzog‏ @HerzogIND 9 Nov 2021
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        I’m old enough to remember that essay. Wait…

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      1. Shaun Richman‏ @Ess_Dog 9 Nov 2021
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        I hope someone's sending him letters.

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      2. WORLD PREMIERE JUNE 3!‏ @garrt 9 Nov 2021
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        This reminds me of my grandmother who died at 98 in 2017, she was widowed in 1958, her last living sibling died in 2011 - we were talking shortly after that death and I said, "Nano, you're gonna live to be 100", and she earnestly replied, "I don't want to live that long"

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      3. azarmadillo  🎃 🦂‏ @azdilla31 9 Nov 2021
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        This really brings me back. Not long before my grandmother’s death I was on the phone with her asking her how she was. She said she was kind of depressed, everyone around her was either dead or dying. Nowhere to go. I’d never heard her like that before 😞

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      1. thaddeus j toad‏ @pratcall 9 Nov 2021
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        My grandparents talk about this as the worst part of a long life.

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      1. Ms. Martini  🍸 🌈 🌊 🥂‏ @bebe_ochs 9 Nov 2021
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        I love this guy. I love his writing. He’s got some great genes.

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      2. DRCatherineIndianaCanada‏ @CBorshuk 9 Nov 2021
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        I loved that essay

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      3. MaryL‏ @Mim5453 9 Nov 2021
        Replying to @CBorshuk @HeerJeet

        Yes, I did too. I distinctly remember it.

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      1. Heidi Finan‏ @hkfinan 9 Nov 2021
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        The curse of a long life.

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      1. Omnivore Books‏ @omnivorebooks 9 Nov 2021
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        We have cousins who went to his 100th birthday party (one of a few I think) and said it was incredible.

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