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One patient's progress on the road to age 120. He lives in an antique biochemical machine, model 1938. He has a one in two billion chance of reaching age 120, but doesn't dwell on these odds. Human longevity, from one patient's point of view as he lives it with excursions into life. He reserves the right to go off on tangents that may have a remote connection to health and longevity. After all, what's a guy to do with 50 years on his hands? E-mail: pollock.george@gmail.com.

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State Kid: Hero of Literacy

A Foster Kid Writes to Win.

Buy the E-Book, $5.99

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At July 01, 2012 3:14 PM, georgepollock said...: Been writing and publishing like a crazy man which, of course, I am. Here's what this Wooster has been doing:

E-Books by George Pollock

"State Kid: Hero of Literacy" is fiction based on his real-life experiences growing up in foster homes; "Last Laughs," is the true story of how five foster kids (he and four younger siblings) found their way in life and each other. "Killers: Surprises in a Maximum Security Prison," is the story of his being locked up for 23 hours with killers in a maximum security prison; "I, Cadaver" is about his postmortem adventures and mischief in the anatomy lab at UMass Medical School. “A Beautiful Story” demonstrates the art and process of creative writing as a 16-year-old boy goes all out to write a story that literally saves his life; "A Long, Happy, Healthy Life," which is about how to live the title every day; and "Unlove Story," Writing anonymously as "Elvis," a husband, dumped after 38 years of marriage, lets it all out on love, marriage, life, everything. A guy doing this? It's unheard of.

For the Nook:

A Beautiful Story
A Long, Happy, Healthy Life
I, Cadaver
Killers
State Kid
Unlove Story

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Name: georgepollock

Location: Massachusetts, United States

Father dying young(27)and abandoned by his mother,George Pollock grew up in foster homes. At 17 he ran away. Alone, no family,dead-end jobs, he joined the U.S. Army. He served 1956-58 as a radar operator at a Nike site in California, scanning the skies for "commie" aircraft. After army service, with the help of a National Defense Education Act loan,he went to college (Merrimack). He made the varsity hockey team as a freshman and got a a full, 4-year athletic scholarship. He went to UMass for a Master's Degree. He and his new bride took off for Africa (Kenya and Nigeria) where he taught for 3 years. He went on to a long career in educational publishing as a writer and editor. Today, though years beyond normal retirement age, he writes Patient's Progress. He writes stories, not tweets. They go anywhere,get the research they deserve, involve issues and people he experiences firsthand, and are as long as they need to be. He also publishes ebooks,(listed at the end of the story). He has no boss. He says: "Today I am a pure writer. I write what I damn well please and the way I think it should be done -- and I am happy to let readers judge the result."