When I mentioned the topic at a dinner party in Paris, my French host launched into a story about the year he lived in Southern California.

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Although mortality was a topic of discussion, the dinner party was far from macabre.

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But at a recent dinner party I attended, it was Goldman that was the topic of conversation.

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