My Fish in a Bucket List: What I Absolutely, Positively Have to Do While I Still Can

Photo by Popescu Andrei Alexandru on Unsplash.

Bucket lists were never my thing. But I never turned 70 before. At the end of this month, I will. And a single item has emerged as something I absolutely must do — or rather return to doing — before the final curtain: Go fishing.

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