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Hi listeners, I'm Christopher Swindle and I have a story I want to tell you.

A story that'll strike fear into your heart.

If he doesn't get it first.

So gather round and listen close.

I never wanted to be a doctor.

Nothing about the profession spoke to me.

I was too selfish.

I aspired for fame and recognition for my name to rise wherever it was heard.

I wanted to create something that would survive the petty criticisms of today and live beyond me.

I wanted to be an artist.

I trained with a canvas, practiced with sculptures, even dabble with sewing,

but a steady hand was not enough to produce more than a masterpiece of mediocre design.

And so from unscrupulous to the other I evolved,

putting both my mind and hands at work with a medium more to my character.

I was successful, wealthy, everything the world said I should be,

but gone were the days of my youth where I dreamed of holding anything close to artistic liberty.

I've heard that an artist is only limited by his imagination, a doctor only by his mind,

but that is not so.

The truth is, he is also limited by nature, his health, his patience health.

He is limited by his equipment, what is provided, what is not.

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