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‘You Can’t Kill a Legend’: My Mother’s Battle With Covid-19

She’s known as the Uninformed Correspondent — but to me, she’s Mom

Jake Plunkett
Human Parts
Published in
11 min readApr 20, 2020

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My mom and I on-board a cruise ship in 2015 #neveragain.

My mother and I are close. Sometime around my 21st year on this Earth, my mother shifted from the matronly figure who raised me to my best friend who I can always confide in. People tend to become absurdly…

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