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Bj\u00f6rn Borg starts his new memoir, \u201cHeartbeats,\u201d with a story about being rushed to a Dutch hospital in the 1990s after overdosing on \u201calcohol, drugs, pills \u2014 my preferred ways of self-medication,\u201d and the Swedish tennis great<\/a> closes it by revealing that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good,\u201d Borg, 69, said in a recent video interview with The Associated Press from his home in Stockholm, \u201cto have a good beginning and a good ending.\u201d<\/p>\n

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