A Legend In His Own Minefield

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A New Shoulder to Cry On

A New Shoulder to Cry On

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John Mendelssohn
Mar 04, 2015
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I have told you until it’s coming out of your ears what an avid little athlete I was as a kid. Baseball was my favorite sport, and that at which I was best was throwing. I had a reasonably strong, accurate arm, but the wrong genes to revel in it. Throwing too much, I condemned myself to a frightful case of arthritis by my mid-40s. It got to the point at…

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