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My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved

We used to have a fight about how much the internet would grieve if he died. I was right, but the last word you get in as the still living is a hollow thing, trailing off, as it does, into oblivion. I love Aaron. I loved Aaron. There are no words to can contain love, to cloth it in words is to kill it, to mummify it…
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Jan 12, 2013My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved by rufo41940

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