Michele Catalano
Nov 1 · 3 min read

Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact.

Bruce Springsteen was succinct and straight forward about it, and I think of that line often when something/someone in my life goes belly up. Death is just a part of life, there’s no getting away from it. Everything you ever loved will be gone some day. People, pets, plants, your favorite restaurants, websites.

Yes, websites. Is it weird to mourn the demise of a website? Not really. Not when it’s a site you went to every day, one that was part of your routine, that brought you joy and made you think and maybe sometimes made you angry. The point is, it was a part of your life, and the…

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Michele Catalano

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Writer, civil servant, dog lover

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