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Family circle

lake Morrison has long made a habit of getting to know his closest relatives better only after their death. I don’t mean this unkindly; in life, I’m sure he’s as dutiful and devoted (or not) as the next person. But the grave seems to release him, spurring his deepest thinking, his best writing and (perhaps) his most assiduous, open-hearted loving. In 1993, he published And When Did You Last See Your Father?, in which he exhumed his dad. In 2002,

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