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Guest: Miriam Pawel is an award-winning reporter and editor who spent twenty-five years working for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography.

Our mother, Susie Johnson, recently passed away, and a few hours before she left us, she requested that we send a letter to the editor on her behalf. She proceeded to essentially tell us to ...