What You Carry in the World
On loss, London, and Lear…
I was in the National Portrait Gallery in London when I learned my father had passed away. I was in a room filled with portraits of mostly men, ones I didn’t recognize — admirals and lords and magistrates, all of them exceptionally proper in their powdered wigs an…
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