Word: onamia
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...remember when my Grandma Keillor lay dying in a little hospital in Onamia, tended by her daughters, and my father and his brothers came to bid farewell to her. They drew up their chairs to the foot of the bed where she lay unconscious, and they were very still and solemn for a while, but in due course they got to talking about cars. It struck me at the time as callous--I was 20 and a poet--to sit by your dying mother and discuss a particular low-mileage Ford station wagon you'd seen on a used...
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