In Memoriam Ante: I wouldn’t be me without you Jules
The thing about the funerals of the widely-loved is that you hear everyone say things that they should have said much, much earlier. You hope that the mother/brother/friend/ mother-of-friend was a mind reader and moved on from this world knowing just how much they meant to us all.
There is of course a very small category of more or less well-known people who have had the (sometimes questionable) privilege of accidentally getting to see their own obituaries when a newspaper office junior has jumped the gun and published early. Mark Twain of course, Marcus Garvey, Hemingway, Coleridge. They say Joe DiMaggio was livid at seeing the CNN report of his death during a televised baseball game, but ...
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