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Sometimes you get tired of writing obituaries and this one is not, for now. Nelson Mandela lives, although his health has been very fragile for a long time and, at any moment, it may happen that, with his definitive passage into history, millions of people throughout the world notice a kind of spiritual orphanhood; an absence that, it occurs to me, may perhaps be equivalent to that felt in his day by so many people who identified with the ideals of the great Mahatma Gandhi.
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