The Last Goodbye
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Yet what Chapin regrets more than the end of his relationship to his parents is that his son will never know them as grandparents. "He's now three years old and missing out on the experience of aging," says Chapin. "I remember touching my grandmother's face--the papery skin, the strangeness and yet beauty of that. My parents will only be a story to him," he says. "I will tell the story with as much love and art as I can, but he won't be able to create his own story."
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