the story he picked was our favorite story from childhood, "uncle fred flips by" by pg woodhouse. i read that story to him and it made him laugh and brought him back to life. over the years as -- after he passed away, that moment began to emerge as an epiphany for me. it began to represent why it is i do what i do for a living, why perform, what performing stories really means to us, what it means to people who watch and listen. and i spun a one-man show, and it made great use of the pg woodhouse story, and it also tells the story that i just told you. the one-man show -- the memoirs were right out of the one-man show. it was the first time i had written anything out of my own experience to perform for their people. courage to go ahead and write the book and tell my story. tavis: 11 read the book, to your earlier point, john, -- when one reads the book, to your earlier point, john, it is hard to imagine that you had a choice in life to do anything else. did you have a choice? >> apparently, i did not have a choice. growing up, i did not want to be an actor. i did not want to go in

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