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GRAMERCY PARK
PAULA COHEN
For my mother,
EDNA RAE GOLDMAN; always loving, always loved, always with me
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DEATH IS A GOOD TOPIC for conversation. The fascination with it seems ingrained in human beings, and there are few acts performed during the lives of most people that are so endlessly discussed, so lovingly dissected, as the act of leaving it. A natural modesty seals the lips of even the most talkative when procreation or birth are mentioned,