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It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
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Dublin city
Brother
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