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One man’s decision to leave TV for his dying father
John Johnson Jr a renowned New York news anchor quit a 750000 a year NBC contract in August 1997 to care for his cancer stricken father. He traveled 368 miles weekly to the Long Island nursing home for nine months and later chose painting over returning to television.
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