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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

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Nancy Gibbs
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 25
Essayist
Journalist
New York City
New York
Nancy Reid Gibbs
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