“You create your opportunities by asking for them.”

– Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11-05

“That’s me.”

“Are you sure?” my wife asked. “That guy has a lot more hair than you do.”

I frowned at my wife who promptly reached over and slapped me in the shoulder.

“You’re so easy to bug,” she said and smiled. We both laughed. We were flipping through my old high school year book – Grade 12. Under the heading of “awards” we found a picture of me receiving a trophy for Outstanding Achievement Dramatic Arts. In the picture I’m wearing a perfectly co-ordinated Levi corduroy outfit: bell-bottom jeans and matching jacket with embroidered flowers on the shoulders.

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