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I’ve been a journalist for more than 60 years. So after doctors delivered the news, I sat down to do what came naturally, if painfully: Write this story. Open at source

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It’s been full of fun and laughter, too, a really good time. I just wish I could stay a little longer.

All of us who, like me, are blessed with a pause before death, spend some time reliving the better moments

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