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My beloved became an Upper West Side New Yorker. At age fifty-eight she retired. She did finally study Shakespeare, putting herself through four years of a BA at Sarah Lawrence. All the other students in her classes were nearly forty years her junior. In the Shakespeare class, when it was her turn to recite a memorized passage, she chose Othello.

She told me that, as she spoke the lines,

When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak of one that lov’d not wisely, but too well,

tears rolled down her cheeks. She had a whole lifetime to know the truth of that great playwright’s words. The students, in their twenties in desks around her, mostly theater majors fulfilling a course requirement, stared at her. One called out, “Wow, you really feel this, don’t you?”

Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir Natalie Goldberg

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