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My Friend and Mentor, Christopher Hitchens

Eli Lake's 2011 remembrance of Christopher Hitchens.

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It is fitting that Christopher Hitchens would die one day after the official ceremonies in Baghdad to end the Iraq war. I befriended Christopher and his family in the fall of 2002 in the run up to that war.

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