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“It is horrible to see oneself die without Children. Napoleon Bonaparte said that.

What greater grief can there be for mortals than to see their children dead. Euripides said that.

When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children. I said that.”

“The next time I was in Los Angeles and drove past the house it was gone, a teardown, to be replaced a year or two later by a house marginally bigger. Some years later in a Washington bookstore I met the buyer’s daughter. I grew up in your house, she said. Not exactly, I refrained from saying.”