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To actually read the text: https://archive.is/EwSWT

Why the down votes? Not everyone on this site has an active subscription and clearly the a author wants his message read. I'm really curious, please respond.

>clearly the a author wants his message read

More likely the author wants to be paid for his work. If he wanted to offer it for free there are plenty of alternative platforms to publish on.

I saw no requests for payment, i only saw a headline without a story. I have no patience to assume why a web site is broken.

>I saw no requests for payment

It was published in the Boston Globe, a commercial organisation. I think it's a reasonable conclusion that the author gets paid for their work. He has been at the paper at least since 1979 according to the article.

It's not reasonable to conclude that going out of my way to pay money will make a page suddenly populate with a story. If there's no offer for more content, I don't assume it's there.

Man, imagine writing a memoir, pouring your heart and life into it.

Then it's behind a goddamn paywall, lol.

It wasn’t paywalled for me. I just had to click “read full article” to expand it

They must have just taken down the paywall within the past 30 minutes. It was still paywalled at that time when I checked.

The first time I loaded it, a "Please subscribe" popup came. I could click cancel, but underneath the banner picture there was just links to other articles. After coming here looking for the archive.is link, reloading the article fixed it.

I was ready to make the snarky comment "This is what I want to say: Pay $1 for 6 months subscription!"...

As a newspaper man, I imagine he would prefer that people support the newspaper.

Or use lynx.

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