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Dedication
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{ For My Sons Daniel Dunn and Justin Allen Maguire For My Parents Walter Charles and Frances Allen Dunn For My Immigrant Irish Ancestors John and Catherine McNally Riley, from Roscommon and Monahan respectively to Rhode Island and Hampton, Connecticut John and Bridget Kenny Burns, from Roscommon to Hampton, Connecticut Michael and Catherine Walsh Dunn, from Kildare to Troy, New York Patrick and Bridget Hanley Maloney, from Limerick to Troy, New York And in Memory of My Grandmother, Leah Burns Allen, Who Gave Me Roscommon Roots [54.221.159.188] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 13:03 GMT) { Sooner or later I would die, too—I understood that now, clearly. . . . And soon all the people who had accompanied me through life would be gone, too, and then even the people who had known us, and no one would remain on earth who had ever seen us, and those descended from us perhaps would know stories about us. . . . And then the stories would fade, and our graves would go untended, and no one would guess what it had been like to wake before dawn in our breath-warmed bedrooms as the radiators clanked and our wives and husbands and children slept. And we would move from the nearer regions of the dead who are remembered into the farther regions of the forgotten, and on past those, into a space as white and big as the sky replicated forever. And all that would remain would be the love bravely expressed, and the moment when you danced and your heart danced with you. —Ian Frazier, Family ...