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For my wife, Julie = The British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott began an autobiography that he never finished. The first paragraph simply says, “I died.” In the fifth paragraph he writes, “Let me see. What was happening when I died? My prayer had been answered. I was alive when I died. That was all I had asked and I had got it.” Though he never finished his book, he gave the best reason to write in the world for writing one, and that’s why I want to write mine—to make sure I’ll be alive when I die. —Anatole Broyard ...

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