Lewis Howard

Lewis Howard was 54 years old when he died in Kansas City, Missouri. Even with only that much known, the weight of it is hard to ignore: a life with decades of mornings and routines, people who recognized his voice, places he passed through often enough to feel familiar, suddenly reduced to a single fact that lands like a closed door. Whatever the details were, whatever led to that ending, the result is the same—someone who existed in full, complicated humanity is no longer here.

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