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When I'm Sixty Four

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IN A NUTSHELL Joe Maughn is a retired copywriter who needs spinal surgery for an E-Coli infection.  After his surgery, he starts to notice a real change in his behaviour. He starts having vivid dreams and writing them out into three novels.Through an old advertising buddy, who was writing mysteries, he gets introduced to an agent/publisher who just loves his work. So at sixty-three, Joe is suddenly starting a second career, one which pays a lot more than his former one. The only thing that’s bothering Joe is just exactly where all these stories are coming from.    ~ 1 ~ He was an ideal candidate for the process. A healthy sixty-three-year-old man named Joe Murtaugh. He was brought into St. Catharines General with an E.coli growth that had lodged itself in his spine. He was in pretty rough shape but his medical record showed that this was, other than for a tonsillectomy when he was seven years old, his first serious medical condition. He was conscious when they brought him...