Bostonist couldn't help but get misty-eyed when we read on Boston.com of how Newton teen Nathan Alden Robinson was posthumously honored during NBC's mini-marathon of "The Office" on Thursday night. Robinson, 15, died in March of of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, pneumonia, and influenza; the youth was a budding piano talent and a huge fan of the NBC television show. As the Globe noted in its obituary, Robinson learned the show's theme song a few weeks prior to his death and was filmed for what became a YouTube clip. As Matthew Gilbert noted today,......

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