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user-inactivated  ·  3834 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Favorite Piece of Journalism.

The Longreads best of lists are a goldmine. I've submitted some of that stuff.

What's really interesting here is how easy it is to skate under the radar as someone who should be "committed," if you simply don't break the law to a very great extent. Families fragment so naturally across long distances now...

I wonder if the tragic irony of the obituary line was what inspired this journalist to really dig into the story and longform it.