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Ben Johnson - I had always loved Ben Johnson in all those western movies, but imagine my surprise when in the summer of 1995 while I was living in Mesa, AZ when I saw him and a elderly woman at a vegetable market in Mesa. I was too shocked to go up to him and speak but about thirty minutes later ran into them again at the grocery store where I shopped. This time I decided to go up to him and speak. I said "Are you Ben Johnson?" he answered, "Well, yes, I am, little lady." he shook my hand and it was dwarfed by his very large one. He then asked me to come over and meet his mother. They acted so friendly toward me and even invited me to their home sometime, which was in senior community close by. Unfortunately, I never went and was sorry when I learned that he died several months later.
PATRICIA MATHES - Posted: May 26, 2007
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