Death
Lerner died on January 2, 2013, in Madison, Wisconsin at age 92.
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“I mourn the safe and motherly old middle-class queen, who held the nation warm under the fold of her big, hideous Scotch-plaid shawl and whose duration had been so extraordinarily convenient and beneficent. I felt her death much more than I should have expected; she was a sustaining symboland the wild waters are upon us now.”
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Making death their ideal basis for different ideals.
The Communists however disapprove of death
Except when practical.”
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