Issue #21802: The reader in BufferedRWPair now is closed even when closing
writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
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+- Issue #21802: The reader in BufferedRWPair now is closed even when closing
+  writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close().
+
 - Issue #23671: string.Template now allows to specify the "self" parameter as
   keyword argument.  string.Formatter now allows to specify the "self" and
   the "format_string" parameters as keyword arguments.