A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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A Legend In His Own Minefield
A Legend In His Own Minefield
My Recent Ordeal, and How I Somehow Summoned the Colossal Courage to Endure It!

My Recent Ordeal, and How I Somehow Summoned the Colossal Courage to Endure It!

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John Mendelssohn
Mar 10, 2015
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My Recent Ordeal, and How I Somehow Summoned the Colossal Courage to Endure It!
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I had offered to take the bus, but No. 1 Friend and roommate wouldn’t hear of it. We arrived in Santa Monica, where UCLA Health has built an orthopedics hospital a block north of where I had my first surgery, at 18, and two blocks east of the cinema to which I’d taken the unfortunate Gail Hickey on my first date, in darkness, as they’d wanted me to repo…

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