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They were two couples, lifelong friends. The wife of one had been dead a few months and the husband of the other had just died, and now they sat together at her dining room table. She asked for advice about the death notice; he had firm ideas about where to place “Professor Emeritus”. Her husband had been aworldclass athlete. As he was dying, she