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Charlie is gone. We are not.

Julie R. Neidlinger
Sep 22, 2025
10 min read

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I didn’t know what to say about these past twelve days. I made a few feeble attempts.¹ I literally wrote something each day and deleted it. Each day felt like a year’s worth of change.² Hot takes are all you can get on that kind of timeline, and they rarely age well.