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Remembering the People We Lost in 2021

An incomplete list.

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Jonathan V. Last
Dec 29, 2021
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Surfing great Greg Noll on his deck at home that overlooks the Smith River near Crescent City. (Photo by Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

1. Gray December

It has been a month of passings: Bob Dole, Joan Didion, and Desmond Tutu all gone this month. And then Harry Reid and John Madden yesterday.

Which makes this as good a time as any to ta…

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