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For years, the obituaries she wrote for\xa0The New York Times were the first thing I\u2019d read in the paper\u2014elegant little biographies, exemplary work in a form that she says was once \u201cthe scarlet O you wore on your dress that said, I\u2019m a bad writer but the paper doesn\u2019t quite have enough on me to be able to fire me.\u201d