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RECENT COLUMNS
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Randall Smith
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Carrie Gress
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Fr. Brian A. Graebe
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Fr. Raymond J. de Souza
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Robert W. Shaffern
The terror of goodbye
John Waters, First Things
Friday, July 19, 2019
I had never been one for reflecting on my mortality. I assumed I had grasped the essentials of the human situation and come to live with them. In [a recent] forty-eight-hour window [of illness], however, the abstract nature of these beliefs became clear.