What Will Your One Line Be?

Melissa Firman
3 min readMay 24, 2020

Reflections on today’s front page of The New York Times memorializing 100,000 lives lost to COVID-19.

Screenshot of The New York Times front page, 5/24/2020

I contemplated just leaving the photo of today’s New York Times front page up there without any words because, honestly? If you’re remotely close to anything resembling a decent human being, that list of names should render you speechless while feeling a somersault of emotions. That’s my reaction, anyway.

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Melissa Firman

Writes about books, GenX, politics, life. Currently working on a memoir. www.melissafirman.com