. >>> glen garvin joins us on the phone from orlando, florida, a reporter with "the miami herald." glen, your reaction? >> well, i know this sounds improbable but i'm pretty surprised. as it happens i'm "the miami herald" reporter who wrote the newspaper's obituary on fidel castro. i can tell you that thing has been sitting around for 15 years now. honestly, it began to appear to us he would never die. >> that's something we've been hearing also from other cubans, whether it was in cuba or whether it was in miami that, you know, fidel castro was immortal. but as you were saying, on the other hand i'm assuming there's the professional side of this for you, which is that you've had this sitting on your desk for a long time? >> reporter: yeah, well, i don't -- i don't want to say i was sitting around breathlessly cheering on someone's impending death, but it did seem very odd. the obituary was written in the summer of 2001 when castro had a fainting spell, fell down some steps, broke a couple of bones, and it really seemed that after many false alarms about the state of his health over