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Elizabeth Benedict
Elizabeth Benedict is the author of Almost and The Practice of Deceit.
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When Baby Boomers Grow Old
Last year, without warning, a close friend and gifted writer committed suicide. She was 75 and affluent, facing major surgery, a wheelchair, permanent incapacity; she declined that new life as unambiguously as she could. Several nights later, still raw from the news, I received a letter from the hotel-turned-assisted-living-facility–let us call it Shangri-la–where my 76-year-old […]