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Here's what happens when you write your own obit. Saralee Perel, who won 2012 awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists for humor and general interest writing, describes herself as a 55-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who rehabilitates a swaggering Charlie Sheen and will be buried, according to her wishes, with the Oscar she won for writing and starring in the remake of the "Titantic." In reality, the Cape Cod writer did just publish a book of columns, Cracked Nuts & Sentimental Journeys: Stories From a Life Out of Balance.