One of the problems with celebrity culture that I’ve noticed these past few years is that as the variety of entertainment media has increased over the past century, so have the number of well-known entertainment figures who will eventually die. This hasn’t been so much of a concern with the Internet Age yet — I don’t think anyone can say that’s even reached a quarter of a century yet — but particularly as the actors who thrived during the post-World War II economic boom, to…

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When I was about ten years old, Mom kept going to this medical centre that wasn’t a hospital, but an office in some suburban office park. My brain couldn’t wrap itself around the idea that medical care could even be done in a place that wasn’t a hospital or a doctor’s office like the one I went to when I was sick. After going there a couple of times, my parents told me what was going on: Mom had a tumour near her pituitary gland.…

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