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John Prine Was In on the Joke All Along
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.