...Art Buchwald took another spoonful of vanilla ice cream covered in chocolate sauce. A foghorn sounded in the distance......Last winter, Buchwald's right leg was amputated, his kidneys were failing, and doctors told him he would die unless he consented to dialysis.
Buchwald, the famously contrarian political columnist, refused. He checked into a Washington hospice and prepared for the grave. Friends wrote eulogies...
...Two weeks, a month, then five months passed, and Buchwald did not die. His health improved, baffling his doctors. And on July 1, he walked out the door. Only about 1 in 10 American hospice patients ever leaves alive. Now, Buchwald is back in the place he loves most, struck anew by the gift of life...
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