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John Prine Was In on the Joke All Along
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Beginning to write about John Prine being gone before John Prine was actually gone is, in so many ways, an extremely John Prine thing to do.
He’d surely find the humor in the ridiculous nature of having to prepare for the worst, and not because he was a cynic: but because he knew that searching for the wit, the absurdity, for that universal sigh of relief, was how we’d all get through whatever fate lobbed at us.
Leonard Cohen once sang “there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.” John Prine was that crack. He brought the light while never forcing us to forget the darkness.
In moments like this, he’d surely want us to see both.When news came that Prine, who died on Tuesday (Apr. 7) at 73, was battling COVID-19, we faced.
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