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How to throw a posthumous party.

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JD Breen
Sep 07, 2024
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Tampa, FL

September 7, 2024

Families should occasionally get together, even (or especially) for regrettable reasons.

This weekend a coterie of aunts, uncles, siblings, children, grandkids, and cousins descended on Tampa to honor a man who for forty years had been my father.

Jerry died in July. Before he did, he made clear he didn’t want his passing to feel…

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