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IT’S A DRY AND WARM DAY when I first meet Chadwick Boseman in Atlanta. Three years and six months later, the same sun is setting on one side of the world and rising on the other as the simple statement is posted. Chadwick Boseman had died, at the age of just 43.

The world responded with shock and devastation. Only his very closest family knew that Chadwick had been diagnosed with colon cancer four years previously.

As I processed the news, my memory delivered me straight to Atlanta, February 2017. To the conversation on the sprawling set of . A conversation in which he will have known he was ill.

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