“I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.”
Age and Death
Afterthoughts (1931)
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Joan Baez (1941) American singer
"The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part Three"
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"The Nuremberg Interviews"