legacies from the men in my life (sexagenarian and the city)

And I don’t mean money. I mean culture, understood in the widest sense.

Whatever about the men, intimacy with them put me in touch with a wide variety of microcultures.

I wonder what legacies, if any, they have from me.

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from my first husband

Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Mozart opera; some sense of how a genius thinks (he was — still is, I suppose — a genius); an understanding of what it was like to grow up Catholic in the U.S. in the 1950s; some sense of what ‘Canadian’ means; a visionary notion of political activism

(he was passionate about Native American education; against the then corrupt miltary regime in Chile; against capital punishment, etc.)

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