Dead Fathers Society
Alek LevMy father died in 1992, when I was 17. That sucked. It's time to talk about it.
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One Dollar and Thirty-Five Cents
Today, October 17, 2025, is the 33rd anniversary of the death of my father, Alan Friedman.
Thank you so much to everyone who made their way to this Substack after hearing it mentioned on How We Made Your Mother. Like that podcast, and the...
Teotihuacán
I have a picture that I took of my father climbing a pyramid at Teotihuacán.
The year was, I don’t know, let’s call it 1989, and I was 14. Though I was probably 12. No younger than 10. My mom and dad and I had traveled to Mexico, where my...
30 Years
Written on October 17, 2022
I was born in 1975, only two years after the American withdrawal from Vietnam and just one year after Nixon’s withdrawal from polite society. It was the year of Born to Run and Jaws and the Rocky Horror Picture...
Who's Counting?
(Originally written on February 2, 2021)
My father was alive for45 years, 11 months, and 16 days. As of today, February 2, 2021, I have been alive for 45 years, 11 months, and 16 days.
But who’s counting?
After a certain lightness of hea...
What's in a Nameplate?
(Originally written on October 17th, 2020)
There was Murray Sawitch. Murray married Ruth, and they had two children, Michael (my uncle) and Alan (my father). Ruth died in her 90s, about a decade ago. My father died 28 years ago today, on O...
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