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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I was reading the bio. Lost two daughters, one to suicide and another to cancer. And neither were **that** young when they died. Lost his wife in 2012.
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@NewYorker in 1944 and his latest piece was 2020. When I was writing about the start of our the Iraq war he stopped me in the office to tell me about being deployed in WWII like it was just the other day.2 replies 0 retweets 29 likes
Yes. I once wrote an article about the classic New Yorker cartoonist Gluyas Williams and Angell was the only person I could find (aside from some grandkids) who had a fresh memory of Williams.
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