A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Better Friends Than I Deserved [March 19, 2007]]

Better Friends Than I Deserved [March 19, 2007]]

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John Mendelssohn
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Better Friends Than I Deserved [March 19, 2007]]
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When I flew back to the USA in the autumn of 2004 to retrieve some things I’d left in the garage of the house I’d owned with my girlfriend Nancy in California’s wine country, I was beside myself with apprehension. My daughter Brigitte hadn’t spoken to me for a year and a half at that point, and I didn’t know how I was going to cope emotionally with the …

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