Remembering Rennie Davis, Remembering Joan Didion
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The Eighth Graduation Speech
After my mother died, i just brought backi i put all her boxes of pictures and letters and stuff in a box and sent it to my apartment in new york. And when i finally started going through it, there there was this hand hand written in pencil on line paper, little speech. The lines i remember are, we had a water problem. We had a water problems. So we built the greatest dams the world has ever known. I lost an enchantment, you know. But it's more complicated for you than it was for your mother. It's more complicated because what i lost was, i thought, i thought what i had lost was it, it, it was,
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