Posted AT 6:28 AM EST on 02/12/08
Ted Rogers, 75
Ted Rogers spent his life defying expectations. He feared he would die by the time he was 38, the age when his father was felled by a brain aneurysm, leaving a six-year-old son with the pristine image of a heroic dad. Driven by this memory, young Ted managed to live almost twice as long as his father, surviving a lengthy catalogue of physical ailments.
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