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LEGACIES
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return train reached New York Rand’s cold had transformed into pneumonia.
The Peikoffs took her directly to the hospital.
Death was not something Rand feared. As her condition worsened
she accepted the inevitable. All she wanted was to die at home. In the
fi nal weeks of February 1982 she gave her work in progress to Peikoff,
now her designated legal and intellectual heir. A hired nurse was in her
apartment twenty-four hours a day, and it was the nurse who sat by her
bedside in early March when Rand slipped away.
Her funeral was an event to rival the great Objectivist gatherings of
the past. Close to a thousand mourners paid her fi nal tribute, waiting
for hours outside the funeral home on Madison Avenue. Her last battles,
breakups, and fl ights of inspiration behind her, Rand lay facing the
world in an open casket. Next to her coffi n was an enormous topiary,
shaped into the sign of the dollar.
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