Ross Douthat
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Something like that had happened six years earlier, when we were first married and I was commuting back and forth from Washington to Baltimore, there had been a period of odd headaches, pain in my neck and back, that after a few inconclusive doctors' visits had simply vanished, unexplained, but attributed shruggingly to the stress of my new life and the commute.
Now it was early June, and I was supposed to join a journalist's trip to Rome.
On the day before the flight I went to see a movie, and sitting in the theater, I noticed that the pain was getting worse.
There was a stabbing sensation in my mouth, around my teeth, and discomfort sharp enough to call a headache.
My mother in law arrived that evening, planning to help with the kids while I was gone.
She and my wife went out to dinner.
I stayed home to put my daughters to bed.
I made some pasta for myself and drank two beers.
It was my last ordinary meal.
You're very welcome.
Thank you for having me.
Well, so you got a taste of it in that reading.
But basically, my wife and I had been living in Washington.
We'd had two daughters.
We lived in a very small row house near the Capitol Dome.
And we were both from Connecticut originally, and we, but especially I, had a kind of fantasy of buying the classic New England farmhouse and maybe not actually farmhouse.
Farming, but doing it as a hobbyist, having some chickens or something like that, and living there with our kids and raising our family sort of in the country far away from the world in which we lived in DC.
So we did it.
We uh sold our house, we made a bunch of money off it because the market in DC was terrific, and we bought the farmhouse with stone walls and barns and everything you would imagine.
And
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