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As a general rule, when someone loses a family member and they are told "I know just how you feel," I think "Yeah, right--how can you know?" But my own father, who died 6 years ago, was also a journalist (Time, Sports Illustrated, and just about every hunting/fishing magazine known to mankind) and novelist, and what you have written here, not just about the death of your father, but the death of your father-as-writer... well, I do know just how you feel.
