One Hundred Thousand Lives

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Barbara Krupke won the lottery. Fred Walter Gray enjoyed his bacon and hash browns crispy. Orlando Moncada crawled through a hole in a fence to reach the United States. John Prine chronicled the human condition. Cornelia Ann Hunt left the world with gratitude. Over 100,000 people have died from the coronavirus in the United States. Today, we glimpse inside the lives of just a few of them. Background reading: Memories collected from obituaries across the country help us visualize and reckon with the incalculable loss of more than 100,000 lives.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
0:15.8	This is the Daily.
0:22.5	100,000 lives.
0:34.6	Today, we remember 100 of them.
0:38.6	It's Friday, May 29.
0:51.8	Willie Levi was born in Orange, Texas on August 19, 1946.
0:58.3	His father was a mill worker.
1:00.3	His mother, a hotel housekeeper.
1:08.9	The identical twins, Clean and Leanne Boyd, were born at Bennington Hospital in Vermont
1:14.8	on March 13, 1956.
1:18.4	Clean came at 5.03 pm, then eight minutes later, Leanne followed.
1:24.5	Leanne always said, they saved the best for last.
1:35.2	Valentina Blackhorse was born on September 2, 1991 in Tubaciti, Arizona.
1:41.4	At age 7, Valentina wore her hair in a braided ponytail and carried around with her everywhere,
1:46.8	a stuffed bear whose name was Mr. Bear.
1:55.8	Madeline Kripke was in fifth grade when she was given her first dictionary and had the
2:00.5	feeling that it unlocked the whole world for her.
2:03.8	What's the book bug is but you, it doesn't let you go.
2:07.9	I conceive of each of these books as a sparkling jewel.
2:21.8	At 16 Orlando, Mancada left his home in Peru with his mother and two siblings and traveled
2:28.2	up through Mexico hoping to cross into the U.S., where his father had been working cleaning
2:33.2	buildings.
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