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Such Beauty, He Thought, Was Too Perfect To Have Come About By Mere Chance. That Day In The Center Of The Pacific Was, To Him, A Gift Crafted Deliberately, Compassionately, For Him And Phil. Joyful And Grateful In The Midst Of Slow Dying, The Two Men Bathed In That Day Until Sunset Brought Is, And Their Time In The Doldrums, To An End.

I Am Actually In Poor Health Due To Chronic Fatigue And Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, And My Ability To Work Is Greatly Diminished Right Now, So I Have To Get Better Before I Can Start Another Big Project

Books On Horse Racing Subjects Have Never Done Well, And I Am Told That Publishers Had Come To Think Of Them As The Literary Version Of Box Office Poison

I Have Vertigo. Vertigo Makes It Feel Like The Floor Is Pitching Up And Down. Things Seem To Be Spinning. It's Like Standing On The Deck Of A Ship In Really High Seas.

And At That Point, I Think My Experience In Covering The Subject Helped Me. I Think Editors Felt Comfortable With The Idea Of Me Telling This Story Because I Had Demonstrated That I Know This Business Pretty Well