A Quote by Andrew Lo
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'
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My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.
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