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 I met a man in Nigeria one time, an Ibo who had six
hundred relatives he knew quite well. His wife had just

had a baby, the best possible news in any extended
family.
They were going to take it to meet all its relatives,

Ibos of all ages and sizes and shapes. It would even
meet other babies, cousins not much older than it was.
Everybody who was big enough and steady enough

was going to get to hold it, cuddle it, gurgle to it, and
D O O ' 'O O '



say how pretty it was, or handsome.
Wouldn't you have loved to be that baby?




This rambling introduction is four times as long as
the most efficient, effective piece of writing in the
history of the English-speaking world, which was

Abraham Lincoln's address on the battlefield at

Gettysburg.


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 Lincoln was shot by a two-bit actor who was exer-

cising his right to bear arms. Like Isaac Asimov and Uncle

Alex, Lincoln is up in Heaven now.




So this is Kurt Vonnegut, WNYC's now emeritus

reporter on the afterlife, signing off on paper this

time.

Ta ta and adios. Or, as Saint Peter said to me, with