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* You may remember that our late commenter Wordslinger wrote a story here about when he and his family met Sen. Bob Dole…
Late in his much-too-short life, my old man developed a highly unlikely and completely accidental friendship with Bob Dole.
If you haven’t read it yet, you really should. It was a touching tale and one of his best comments ever on this blog, which is really saying something.
* Two readers, Elizabeth Austin and John Patterson, independently sent the story to Sen. Dole after Wordslinger passed away. Dole then wrote a letter to his widow…
What a nice thing to do.
Karl never told his family about commenting here. They were all absolutely stunned by the outpouring of grief and tributes after he passed. And they were so very grateful to Elizabeth and John for contacting Sen. Dole.
* I told you Wednesday I was having lunch that day with Karl’s brother. He later texted me a copy of Dole’s letter. He also asked me to thank all of you from the family for the kind words and for donating to a college fund for Wordslinger’s daughter Emma Oxnevad, a journalism student at DePaul who did an internship with the Sun-Times last summer. I emailed Emma a couple of days ago to tell her about meeting her Uncle Bing and this is some of what she wrote back…
I hope you’re doing well and the blog hasn’t suffered too much from his loss. The last thing he would’ve wanted was for people to have gotten less sharp in his absence.
* Wordslinger regularly sent me late-night emails with YouTube links to songs he loved and which he figured I’d love, too. Here’s his last such email to me…
Yeah, I dig it…
You’re a friend of mine
And when my life is over
Remember when we were together
posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Nov 1, 19 @ 4:15 pm
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