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she reads the obits as soon as she gets her morning paper
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Erica Zora Wrightson, who interviewed Herrera in 2016, wrote the obit.
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Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
Here is some of the Times obit, June 9, 1994:
Eric A. Nordlinger, a foreign affairs expert and professor at Brown, Harvard and Brandeis universities, died last Friday at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 Dec. 2024
For their obits in the New York Times — by Richard Sandomir — go here and here.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
Manny had brought home local papers after that, the Tampa Bay Times, the Bellingham Herald, which August proceeded to read from front page to obits.
—Camille Bordas, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
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Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
Here is some of the Times obit, June 9, 1994:
Eric A. Nordlinger, a foreign affairs expert and professor at Brown, Harvard and Brandeis universities, died last Friday at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 Dec. 2024
For their obits in the New York Times — by Richard Sandomir — go here and here.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
Manny had brought home local papers after that, the Tampa Bay Times, the Bellingham Herald, which August proceeded to read from front page to obits.
—Camille Bordas, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
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“Obit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obit. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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