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Injury Prevention 2007;13:361; doi:10.1136/ip.2007.017418
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EDITORIALS

Final farewell

With a song in my heart, the last word

I B Pless

Correspondence to:
Professor I B Pless, Editor; barry.pless@mcgill.ca

Reminiscences and anticipations

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Twenty-five years ago while we were on sabbatical in London, my wife gave me a clarinet for my 50th birthday. An excellent teacher helped me to quickly fall in love with the instrument. She explained that my terrible timing offset a surprisingly good tone. Nevertheless, I enjoyed practising and made reasonably good progress. Over the past 13 years, however, as editor of this Journal, I have had less and less time to devote to my beloved "licorice stick".


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  		Figure 1 Practising the clarinet.

 
Thus, one of the many benefits of concluding my term as editor is that editing can no longer serve as a bad excuse for not practising more regularly. Another benefit is the time I’ll have to listen to more jazz and opera and to tackle the stack of books I intend to read, some for the second or third time. I’ve also begun writing a children’s book, . . . [Full text of this article]






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