Remembering Oct. 7 Through the Strange Comfort of a Pop Song
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[Editor’s note: This guest column includes descriptions of death and violence that some may find triggering.] Today marks two years since Oct. 7, the single deadliest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust, and strangely, there’s a love song playing in my head: “Die With a Smile” by Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga . Released 10 months after the massacre, the song’s lyrics are profoundly on point. Here’s the first verse: I just woke up from a dream Where you and I had to say goodbye And I don’t know
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