Anderson Cooper, 56 Occupation: CNN anchor, author and podcast host Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times On processing the past: “I’m the last one left from this sort of interesting family that existed,” he said. “I just find it sort of haunting this idea that everyone just disappears.” — NEW YORK — It took Anderson Cooper more than a year after his mother’s death to begin clearing out her apartment. It was an emotionally draining task, one that he put off — something his m