Emma Lou Warner Thayne was wheeled to a computer in her Salt Lake City home on Wednesday morning to work on one last poem — this one for the inauguration of a new president for Salt Lake Community College.
Thayne had never turned down a request to write a poem, not in more than half a century, and she wasn’t about to start now. But this time the effort was too great and she reluctantly headed back to bed, exhausted.
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