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I’ll be blowing out 80 candles on the cake this month.

It’s one of those terrible events that can’t be avoided. The only way to avoid it is not get there.

So I’ve spent some time reflecting on where I’ve been.

And it occurs to me that I’ve been a writer (and author) for 60 of those years.

Which means I’ve cranked out millions of words, counting those penned at different career stages as a journalist, public relations man and creative writer of books and short stories.

My younger brother, Junaid, passed away recently after a two year battle with cancer. He died as I was holding his hands at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on March 19, 2008 at 11:10am. Our whole family was there at his bedside when he passed away. He was only 33 years old.

Especially difficult to bear was the fact that just over a year into my brother’s illness he had made a miraculous recovery after enduring several rounds of chemo, radiation and various alternative health treatments. (When Junaid was first diagnosed with stage four base-of-the-tongue cancer, he was given 7 months to live with less than a 10% chance of survival).

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