I Promise Not to Die at 62

Keith A. Owens
6 min readApr 29, 2020

If my father were alive today he would be celebrating his 107th birthday. But he died when he was 62.

I actually just discovered this — or, I guess, re-discovered this — several days ago when for some reason that has already receded in memory I was going back through my electronic records to track down his death certificate.

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Keith A. Owens

Longtime Detroit-based journalist, musician and writer. Co-founder of Detroit Stories Quarterly.