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On our elders, mortality & getting on with it

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Feb 13, 2023
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This is Part 2 of a 4-part exchange between me & Reena Kapoor, an essayist & poet living in Northern California.

I met Reena last summer on Substack. Although we’re separated by continents & oceans & different generations, we’ve developed an unexpected friendship via this letter exchange about mortality, love, & philosophy.

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Poet. Playwright. Photographer. Storyteller. Citizen Historian. Libertarian. Skeptic. Techie. Lapsed atheist. Suspended outsider. Wanderer. Ponderer. Instagrammer @1StarDusty. aka Reena.eth
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