PFEIFFER: When a death is unexpected, like when a news-maker dies at an unusually young age, it can be a scramble to put together an obituary. Other times, writing an obit is a decades-long process.

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Ellis Island, the famous gateway to the U.S. in New York Harbor, closed its doors for good.

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