-46:17 The Lives They Lived Produced by Kelly Prime, Michael Simon Johnson and Eric Krupke; with help from Parin Behrooz; and edited by Mike Benoist and Lisa Tobin; and read by Wesley Morris, Jazmine Hughes, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Irina Aleksander. After a year of bereavement, we pause to reflect on the lives of four complex and vibrant people we’ve lost. Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 wesley morris Hello, I’m Wesley Morris. I’m a critic at The New York Times and a staff writer at The Times Magazine. And today, we’re going to do something a little different on The Daily. Every year in December, the magazine puts out an issue called “The Lives They Lived.” And it focuses on notable people who have lost their lives throughout the year. Some of the people in the issue tend to be very famous, and some of them tend to be people that very few people have heard of. But the point is to focus on the extraordinary and in some cases, vividly ordinary life that someone lived. This year, of course, has been quite an extraordinary one for life and the loss of it. Whether it was death as the result of COVID, or from some form of racialized violence, or death from any other cause, it’s been a long year of grieving people. I guess — I mean, if there were a national emotion this year, it probably would be bereavement. And a very human thing to do at the end of the year is to stop and sort of take stock of the kind of year it was. And some of that involves acknowledging that, for example, some people who were here in 2020 aren’t coming with us into 2021, to take a moment to reflect on what it’s going to mean to not have them come forward with us into that next year, and to look at your life and the complexities of the life you’re living, through the lives that they lived.