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Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

June 12, 2019

OTTAWA—When I was a teenager, my 80-year-old grandfather told me “the hardest part about growing old is burying your friends.” The most striking loss he faced was the death of a friend who had been an Olympic gold medal winner, whom he thought would outlive him. But I came to believe I would ...

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