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My MIL died of pancreatic cancer so I read this book with special interest. Like Randy, she was (outwardly) in excellent health one day and then suddenly she was gone. It all happened very quickly (right at the three month mark) and came as a complete shock. I learned a lot about time being shorter than you think from her death. I learned even more from Randy's attitude about life and about death. Thankfully, I'm not facing a terminal illness (that I know of) and still have time to treat every d
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So this was supposed to be inspirational. Instead, I found it to be a book written by an entitled jerk explaining how he'd taken advantage of race and class privilege to have a wonderful life. "Brick walls are there for you to prove how much you want something." Sorry, but that's just not how the world works. If you're a cis white man with a reasonable amount of money, sure, that's great advice, but for the rest of us......
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