G'day Bob

30 May 04 13:59, Bob Lawrence wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>> What else have you got to do, sit in the sun on the front porch
 DD>> patting the wonder dog, and pondering how things might have
 DD>> been? 

 BL>  All my uncles (4 of them) died before 70, three cousins are dead,
 BL> and my oldest male cousin is 72. My mother died last week, 

I'm sorry to hear that Bob.

 BL> I am now an orphan, and at the age of 64, having survived a heart attack 
 BL> at 57, 

I have been an orphan since I was 36 (although my mother died when I was 15).

I had an EECG when I turned 50 and they said I had no descernable
occlusions (I think that was the lingo). The doc says I should have another
one at 55.

I have been treated for cholesterol for a decade or so, so my weight is not
too far over, and my actual cholesterol count is lower than normal. Of
course the cholesterol drugs could be giving me liver cancer....

 BL> I ponder my mortality not what might have been. I am more concerned
 BL> about today, and the prospective lack of tomorrows...

You have to accept that you ARE mortal.

 BL>  I have no regrets. Yesterday can go fuck itself. And Bill Gates too!

Don't give up yet.

Regards,
David

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