Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

Hamill wrote about the New York underclass and racial division most notably in an essay for Esquire magazine entitled Breaking the Silence. Anne Hamill was employed in Wanamaker's department store and also worked as a domestic a nurses' aide and a cashier in the RKO movie chain. In 1998 he publiPete Hamilld an extended essay on contemporary journalism titled News is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century.

" Hamill was a columnist and editor for the New York Post and The New York Daily News. Pete Hamill (born June 24 1935) is an American journalist novelist essayist editor and educator.