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Hudson River: Casting My Father's Ashes by Doug Holder Friday, November 28, 2003 Share Print Save Become a Fan A sort of KADDISH for my dad. Dedicated to my brother Don.
The Hudson was a misty broad sheet of placid water that enveloped the fine, powdery spray of fallible flesh and brittle bone-- all that was left of the man. The river slowly dragged him downstream past the worn, world-weary Bronx tenements of his youth-- Then passing the teeming city he loved, left, but always returned to-- the very city he cut his baby teeth in. Finally he was flushed out to the wide mouth of the open sea his essence-- where he always wanted to be.

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Reviewed by jude forese	11/29/2003

wow! i've done the same and watched the ashe pass by those same bronx tenaments ...