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To the editor:
Regarding Bob Waite’s column, “Be Nice to Your Siblings … Even the
Hypochondriacs. They Might Write Your Obituary Someday”
Columnist Bob Waite should stick to what he’s best at — writing
obituaries of those who have actually passed on.
His writing about his parents is touching and evocative. But, as he wrote, “You can, of course, carry things too far.”
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By dredging up and repeating “an evil moment” from a time when he wrote a mean, snide obituary for his younger, still-living brother, he has disobeyed his own advice to “be nice to siblings” and indeed has yet again “fallen into the trap of tormenting … siblings.”
Those are his words. In bringing this up again, in this newspaper, he’s repeating, as he admits, a “huge strategic error.”
Mr. Waite worries about a sibling someday writing his obituary,
presumably getting even with him, but he should worry more about what
his own column says about him now.
Bruce Henderson
Newton, Mass.
January 04, 2021 at 09:35PM
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