The Undelivered Eulogy

In August 2020, Memoria Podcast featured this short piece of my writing. I love the idea behind this podcast - writers reading their own work, with extra context.

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The Undelivered Eulogy

75 years, 8 months and 19 days seems like a very short life, doesn’t it? I stand here and see hundreds and hundreds of you here to grieve my father, a man so widely loved and admired.

When my father died, my brothers and I talked about what, if anything, we would say at his funeral. For reasons that this piece hopefully makes obvious, we chose not to say anything. But while we were talking about our childhood, I kept mentally composing phrases and sentences that I would have used if I’d delivered the eulogy I’d been brave enough. So, while the eulogy is fictional, insofar as I never delivered it, the stories it tells are true.

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