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Conan O'Brien pays tribute to parents who died 3 days apart: 'They were kindred spirits'

The "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend" host is paying tribute to his parents Dr. Thomas F. O'Brien and Ruth Reardon O’Brien, who died three days apart.

Conan O'Brien is paying tribute to his parents, "kindred spirits" who died three days apart in early December. My dad was the one who was saying 'I'm off to Peru with a change of clothes in my briefcase to try and launch this website for a hospital there high in the mountains,'" O'Brien said. O'Brien said that "if anyone was unhappy around my mom in a 50-mile radius, she thought it was incumbent on her to fix the problem," adding that "it did not make her life easy, but it was very much a part of her Catholic drive — that I have to be of service to people.'

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