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Fri 04 Apr 2009Living with a 'gift that keeps on taking'
Just 30 years old when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, actor Michael J Fox’s natural optimism eventually re-asserted itself and he is now a leading fundraiser and campaigner for stem-cell research. And his previous life as a movie star wasn’t such a great party anyway, he tells EMMA BROCKES
AFTER HE WAS diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, but before he started writing books about optimism, Michael J Fox went through a period of seeing himself as he thought others saw him.
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