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Dec 5, 2022Liked by Bill Gardner

I think he lived because his biology smiled after only 15 minutes of stunned. I bet the attitude studies the ACS reviewed did not control for smiling 15 minutes after a death sentence literature review. Maybe the lesson here is to work on the narrative rather than on an unknown number.

‘Well Jay 2022, this is the type of cancer where you should start executing on your bucket list, and the good news is that there was at least one guy who repeatedly filled his bucket for 20 years.’

Keep on keeping on dearest Bill, you too are a force of nature!

Love, Chris

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I love that smile too. He really was a remarkable person.

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We were heavy Gould readers in my family, and my older son, now a biology postdoc, kind of grew up on him. May you channel his luck as well as his energy.

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Thanks for all of your posts Bill. Last week's was especially impactful for me and I have been trying to live more emergently in the moment.

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