From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.

This is the Daily.

Every December, our colleagues at the Times magazine

devote an issue to remembering those who died

during the previous year.

We called them, let me hear.

You guys hear, say, like, a let me hear.

She was good at listening,

like, when I wanted to talk about something.

He was just a wild towel.

I always called him my tarzan,

because he had, like, really long hair.

With gun violence, now the number one cause of death

for American children.

The magazine decided to remember those whose lives

ended far too soon.

He skipped the walking and crawling face.

He went straight to running.

He ran everywhere.

Like, I never understood.

I was like, why is he like this?

I remember the day his voice changed.

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