Michael Hedges, a 57-year-old man from Phoenix, Arizona, enters the public record in the spare language of a single obituary notice: a name, an age, a city, and the simple statement that he “passed away” on June 18, 2011. The brief line was published in The Arizona Republic almost four weeks later, in mid-July, giving only the essentials and none of the usual constellation of details that so often surround a death—no list of relatives, no mention of work or hobbies, no hint of the life tha
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