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I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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