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Michael fox recounts his life, from his childhood in western canada to the meteoric rise in film and television that made him a worldwide celebrity. A funny, highly personal, gorgeously written account of what its like to be a 30yearold man who is told he has an 80yearolds disease. The same sharp intelligence and selfdeprecating wit. In this candid book, with his trademark ironic sensibility and sense of the absurd, he tells his life story from his childhood. The ten years since my diagnosis have been the best ten years of my life and i consider myself a lucky man michael j.
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