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Kevin Heldman's avatar

That was actually beautiful. A beautiful piece of writing.

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Michael Shapiro's avatar

Thanks Kevin. Means a lot

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Kevin Heldman's avatar

Of course.

Love your writing these days -- to me its like you've got your own column that I look forward to reading like I used to look forward to reading Murray Kempton's, John Leonard's, Breslin's, Frank Rich's columns in the Nation, Newsday, the Times back when columns were a thing.

It's inspiring.

A new chapter in your life when so many of my contemporaries in journalism are retiring, taking buy outs, going into teaching, working for a non profit, quitting. Inspired me to keep on when I was thinking of throwing in the towel with everybody else.

What you're doing is great.

Best of luck with this and with the book.

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