..... about his fake doctorate and how he once stole a safe.
A man in the final stages of terminal cancer wrote his own obituary shortly before he died last week and used the opportunity to come clean about his past.
Friends and family of Val Patterson, 59, learned on Sunday that the man they thought held a doctorate from the University of Utah only received the degree thanks to a paperwork mistake.
Even more of a surprise was the revelation that the engineer had never even graduated.
Mr Patterson, from Salt Lake City, wrote: 'Also, I really am NOT a PhD.
'What happened was that the day I went to pay off my college student loan at the U of U, the girl working there put my receipt into the wrong stack, and two weeks later, a PhD diploma came in the mail.
'I didn't even graduate, I only had about three years of college credit. In fact, I never did even learn what the letters "PhD" even stood for.
But he had an even bigger shock in store with the confession that he once stole a safe.
He wrote: 'As it turns out, I AM the guy who stole the safe from the Motor View Drive Inn back in June 1971.'
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