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Two writers took the time to remember loved ones who died this December. The staff writer Franklin Foer who as a teenager trekked 2,600 miles to flee Nazi persecution with nothing but a pair of scissors and a winter coat. He remembers her as a woman who loved life fiercely: “Survival,

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