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Michael J. Foxis mourning the loss of his mother, Phyllis Fox.
“I was 23 years old, and I called her, she was in Canada, and I said, ‘They want me to do thisSteven Spielbergmovie, but I have to do it at night and I have to doFamily Tiesin the daytime.’ And she said, ‘You’ll be too tired,’ " Michael said.
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Phyllis was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1929 to father Henry “Skip” Piper and mother Jane “Jenny” Piper, according to anonline obituary.
She had three brothers — Kenneth, Stuart and Albert — as well as a sister, Patricia. Each of her siblings predeceased her, as did her son Mark and her daughter Karen, as well as her husband, William.
“Well, in the last year I’ve broken my cheek, my eye socket, my hand, my elbow … my shoulder. I had a rough year of getting beat up,” he told audience members. “But that was really cool because it made me realize … with gratitude, it’s sustainable.”
“If you can find something to be grateful for, if you can find something and say, ‘Well, that’s good,’ … It’ll always get better,” he continued. “… I’m very optimistic.”
Added Michael: “I’d say optimism is thinking that things are more likely to get better than they are to get worse. If you believe in that, and you are grateful for it, that’ll sustain you the rest of your life.”
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source: people.com
