Susan Sontag — social commentator, critic, activist and acclaimed writer — executed her last will and testament six months before she died on Dec. 28, 2004 at age 71. Her death, reportedly from complications of acute myelogenous leukemia, concluded a long battle with cancer, about which Sontag had waxed philosophical in her book, Illness as Metaphor. In her will, Sontag left a contingent bequest to her partner, the famous photographer Annie Leibovitz, but essentially left her entire
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