Couldn't wade through the tidal wave of forced narrative. Who starts a story with a 3 minute hero shot? Just poor.
"she never lost the awareness that she had honed over a lifetime—her daunting gift for seeing people and situations plain—nor the voice that always said the right thing, the true thing, the honest thing, the thing that cut to the bone."
"she spoke as if from the deepest well of exhaustion "
"She was always so dignified in her bearing, so erect in her carriage, so put together in every way"
It's like introducing someone to the Lord of the Rings with Boromir's death scene and expecting them to get all teared up.
edit: go ahead and take a look at the author's other pieces. He seems to specialize in Mad Men recaps, lists like "8 ways the world has changed" and "7 things Snowden learned," Obama bashing and celebrity gossip.