Letters to the Editor (Leonard Cohen, Cashless Giving, Prayer, Sinning Against Others)
It has been a few weeks since I last shared a collection of letters to the editor. But I’m making up for lost time today by posting quite a few. I hope you enjoy them!
Comments on Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
I read your recent flashback article, “Seems So Long Ago, Nancy” with keen interest. Not because I know this song; in fact, I am not very familiar with much of Cohen’s music. I read with interest though because I was familiar with the story you told, because it was as though you were telling my own story.
My father always kept a frame in his room that held three individual portraits. I knew his, of course, and the one of his youngest sister, the aunt I knew. The third photo, the one in the middle, was a face with only a name, a name that was rarely spoken. She wasn’t a person though, at least not in the sense that I ever had any idea of who she was, of what kind of person she was.
All I knew about her was that she had taken her own life, early in the year she was to be married, th..
