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Condolences
To Josh Marshall, who just lost his father. I know the feeling, though the pain is long dull now--I lost mine half a lifetime ago.
[Update in the afternoon]
While Josh has written a beautiful eulogy, am I the only one to wonder why he has a different last name than his father?
[Update]
Commenters, who read his piece more carefully than I, point out the numerous references as to why they don't share the same last name, which makes his eulogy even more heart felt and sad. He was his father in deeds, if not biology, and the reverence, love and grief should be respected all the more.
Posted by Rand Simberg at September 05, 2006 09:38 AM
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Rand,
He said in his eulogy that his biological parents divorced when he was quite young. I'm guessing that , while his mother remarried and took his father's name, for some reason the young Alan was not renamed.
It's a very moving eulogy. I still remember losing my father when I was in my 20s quite unexpectedly. There's still a hole in my heart from that. Dad was quite a guy.
Posted by Chuck Divine at September 5, 2006 01:24 PM
Rand,
He said in his eulogy that his biological parents divorced when he was quite young. I'm guessing that , while his mother remarried and took his father's name, for some reason the young Alan was not renamed.
It's a very moving eulogy. I still remember losing my father when I was in my 20s quite unexpectedly. There's still a hole in my heart from that. Dad was quite a guy.
Posted by Chuck Divine at September 5, 2006 01:24 PM
Damn. I screwed up and double posted. Please accept my apologies.
Posted by Chuck Divine at September 5, 2006 01:25 PM
"How much I was, in a word, his son. And that is, paradoxically, all the more precious to me since we shared not a drop of blood between us.
My biological parents were divorced soon after I was born. I don’t know just how old I was when my mother started dating Alan. But I know that he was there at my first birthday party. And I have no memory of anything before him.
Our love for each other transcended biology."
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