But the sight of 81-year-old Admiral Heights resident and former CBS honcho Stan Mitchell standing at his kitchen counter, painstakingly slicing, dicing and sauteing the ingredients brought tears to the eyes of longtime pal Maureen Lamb.
It wasn't the onions.
Last year, Mr. Mitchell could barely hold a pen, much less a knife, and four years before that, doctors had nearly thrown in the towel after the tall athletic man suffered a massive stroke while vacationing in...
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