My Brain Tumor and Shaun Cassidy
4 min readAug 1, 2023
Originally published at https://www.wbur.org on August 1, 2023.
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…