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Both she and he will always be my father.
Tony Dokoupil.
It was an octave of hope and desperation in almost equal measure, and I knew even without his saying another word that it meant another change to the way he signed off his emails.
find out the big sheet was covering the actor Vic Morrow,
He was a self-taught expert at both getting the story and being the story.
“News Helicopter Pilot Risks Life To Save 50,” read the next morning’s AP headline.
always the hero; also the harm.
We had a lot of paintings on the wall. Sometimes my father
We had no choice.
The video of a burning yule log you sometimes see around the holidays—a city version of a warm fire in a country home—was a WPIX invention in the sixties.
The Yule log, WPIX
Laverne Cox
Hannah. It meant “grace” in Hebrew.
Hannah to Zoey,
my prescription for self-care.
HEAT is an acronym for hostile environment awareness training.
My father used to say she believed in burning the ship after crossing the Rubicon.
funicular
More people than ever were watching or reading the news. But fewer people than ever were trusting it.
More but fewer
Our brain’s default setting is emotion not reason, feeling not fact.
my brain—in its endless search for meaning—turned
An homage, perhaps?
“Nothing about this story is exceptional—except for the fact that I got more time to figure it out than the majority of new moms in this country. And Tony got more time than at least 70 percent of fathers out there. And that is insane. It is insane that 25 percent of women go back after two weeks. And I think it’s insane that seven out of ten men go back after ten days or less.”
In other words, at the very moment the highest ranking Republican in Congress was standing up for truth at last, the lies were breaking through.
No one can choose the gifts of their childhood. But everyone can work to reject its worst lessons. That’s what I’m trying to do.
Introspective intensity
All we can do is try.
Doc-Tur.
