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Peter A. Selwyn

Peter A. Selwyn is associate director of the Yale AIDS Program in New Haven, Connecticut, and a faculty scholar of the Open Society Institute’s Project on Death in America.

— From July 1998
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Surviving The Fall

A Physician Comes Of Age

Now I gradually reconstructed the story of my father’s death, piece by piece. Despite the many gaping holes remaining, I realized that it was most likely not, as I had grown up believing, an accident. The truth was he hadn’t fallen from that window; he’d jumped.

July 1998
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