2. Roger Angell is 94 years old. This is this beautiful, heart-breaking essay he wrote about old age:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/17/old-man-3?currentPage=all …
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3. Angell was 5 years old when the New Yorker first started publishing.
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4. Angell's mom Katharine Angell White stared working as an editor at The New Yorrker six months after the magazine was launched.
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5. Angell's step-dad was E.B. White, who Katharine White recruited for the magazine in 1929.
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6. Angell's first contribution to The New Yorker was in 1944. As far as I know, he's the only living writer who has worked for every editor.
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7. Angell's essay meant a lot to me because my own grandfather lived to be 95, his great longevity was both a blessing and a curse.
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8. My grandfather was lucky enough to have good health & a lucid mind till the very last week in life.
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9. Yet to live to be 95, even surrounded by a family that loves you, is to bear witness to innumerable deaths.
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10. My grandfather outlived his wife by many decades (she died before I was born). He outlived a daughter and a son.
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11. My grandfather outlived not just almost all his contemporaries but also almost everyone from the generation younger than him.
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12. In the last week of his life, when for the first time he lost his mind's grip, my grandfather started talking to people decade's dead.
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13. I know of know work of literature that quite captures the texture of extreme old age better than that Agnell essay.
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14. My grandfather -- born in a village in Punjab -- couldn't have been more different than Agnell. Yet their old ages have parallels.
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