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EPISODE · Jun 4, 2026 · 17 MIN

Deciding to Say Goodbye

from The Obit Project · host Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville

Clifford Marion was a jokester and a lover of card games and gambling. He was a force where he worked for a decade at the Town Pump. And then he got sick. At the end, surrounded by his family, it was his wife who had to make the decision about when to let go, a moment at the heart of this story. Reported and narrated by Sophia Marsolek, current student at UM Journalism.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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