My Brain Tumor and Shaun Cassidy

Stacey Curran
4 min readAug 1, 2023

Originally published at https://www.wbur.org on August 1, 2023.

Shaun Cassidy in about 1970. (Michael Ochs/Getty Images)

An earnest goal of my young life was to meet Shaun Cassidy. I had no executable plan to make this happen. I believed I’d be walking along someday, and he would appear. And of course, he’d know me, as surely as I knew him.

But in the late 1970s, the closest I ever got to Shaun Cassidy was watching “The Hardy Boys” TV…

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Stacey Curran

Former journalist; few N.E. Press Assoc. Awards, few Boston Globe Magazine essays, @TheBelladonnaComedy @Slackjaw @BostonAccent, @WBUR, grocery lists.