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It is a story about a family's experience of loss and mourning after the death of their son on 9/11, incorporating themes of memory, journaling, and misinformation. The author discussed the challenges of writing about the sensitive topic, including the fallibility of memories related to the event.
Bobby was this diarist. He wanted to be a novelist. He kept all these diaries since he was a teenager. And his last diary was sitting on his desk when he died.
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It is a story about a family's experience of loss and mourning after the death of their son on 9/11, incorporating themes of memory, journaling, and misinformation. The author discussed the challenges of writing about the sensitive topic, including the fallibility of memories related to the event.
Bobby was this diarist. He wanted to be a novelist. He kept all these diaries since he was a teenager. And his last diary was sitting on his desk when he died.
And his father, in this total fugue state, gave that diary away to the woman that Bobby was about to propose to because she saw that her name was all over it and she wanted it.
But after he did it, his wife was like, how could you have done that? How could you have given away the last thing our kid ever wrote when this was a chance to hear his voice one last time?
She was so broken by this. And she was desperate to get this diary back. And she asked this woman, her name was also Jen, would you give me this diary back? And she wouldn't give it back. And yeah, I wanted that diary back. And that's the story.
So a really good example is that Jen, the almost-fianc, because Bobby had bought a ring for her, just hadn't proposed...If you asked Bobby's younger brother, she stayed there with them for six months. If you ask Bobby's mom, she stayed there for a week. Wow. And she remembers having stayed there for two months.
