A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Another Long Gone, But Forever in My Heart

Another Long Gone, But Forever in My Heart

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John Mendelssohn
Jan 12, 2015
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I think my uncle Marty, my mother’s kid brother, might have been the handsomest young man in the world at one point, but the deck was stacked against him. I think their dad, the maternal grandfather I never met, either tyrannized or ignored his three kids, and that my grandmother didn’t do the world’s greatest job of protecting them from the tyranny. If…

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