As the car carrying him departed the police station, a photographer captured another indelible image, of the former Prince slumped in the back seat, wide-eyed and slack-jawed—the boy for whom the chimes once pealed looking very much like a man for whom the bell now tolls.
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Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2026
May your sounds, your chimes, your silence calm us.
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