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Peter Sblendorio

Neil Diamond on Parkinson’s battle: ‘I can’t really fight this thing, so I had to accept it’

Neil Diamond is embracing a positive outlook amid his battle with Parkinson’s Disease.

The Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter only began to truly accept his 2018 diagnosis of the brain condition within “the last few weeks,” he told “CBS Sunday Morning.”

“I can’t really fight this thing, so I had to accept it, this Parkinson’s Disease,” Diamond, 82, said in an interview that aired Sunday.

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