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In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his dad, William F. Buckley, the daddy of the modern conservative motion, and his mom, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most attractive and brilliant socialites. He was their only child and their marriage was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: "These were not - regarding every other group of adoring, wonderful parents on earth - your typical dad and mom."
As Buckley explains to the story of these final year together, he calls for listners on the surprisingly entertaining tour through private hospitals, funeral homes, and memorial services, taking the heartbreaking and disorienting sense of becoming a 55-year-old orphan. Buckley preserves his sense of humor by recalling the words of Oscar Wilde: "To lose one parent or guardian may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both appears like carelessness."
Just as Calvin Trillin and Joan Didion offered solace and perception into the connection with losing a partner,
