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After his death, I scooped all his little notebooks into a box. The pain was too raw, and then the business of living interfered.

This was accompanied by chants I couldn’t understand. Reverentially the arms were moved down to the figure’s sides — with more tenderness than on any living human being. It took half an hour.

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