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...matter of pages, David raids the townships of his own people, kills the inhabitants to avoid culpability, then writes a beautiful, passionate elegy to Saul’s family. Later, he impregnates a woman named Bathsheba, then tries to disown the child by calling the woman’s husband from the battlefield and getting the two to “lie together.” When the husband refuses, David sends him to the battlefront, “that he may be smitten...
...married his wife in the 1980s, and later adopted her son by a former husband. McCombe is survived by his wife, two brothers, son, and new grandson, Hayden Stephen McCombe...
...were, without a doubt however, warned against this sort of young love. Mother, Oprah, and that same aunt (then with her second husband who owned a yacht in Boca) repeatedly uttered to us during family reunions, Florida vacations, and late-night talks on the summer house porch: “Wait, wait, wait.” Each would explain in initially self-righteous tones and subsequently half-veiled pleas that a woman just doesn’t know herself till she’s 30. They’d raise their voices and stare us down, one hand clutching...
...agree, we can have quite a bit: a 10-year career during which you’re constantly justifying paused motherhood, carpal tunnel syndrome (which I may have already acquired while editing this piece of work), a graying husband, a four-year period of needles and frozen sperm, a lower chance you’ll be able to chase your grandchildren around the yard, and much lower chance you’ll be alive to attend their graduations. Do I see the paint peeling on this white picket fence dream...
Motley is survived by three sisters, a brother, her husband, and her son, Joel Motley III ’74, who also attended Harvard Law School...