Today I am 44! Jesus Christ that's old! I never imagined I'd live to be forty-four. Do you want to know who else didn't make it past their forty-fourth year?
Robert Louis Stevenson.
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Billie Holiday.
Anton Chekhov.
D.H. Lawrence.
Jackson Pollock.
Stephen Vincent Benét.
Henry David Thoreau.
& Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Terrible losses, all. Still, if I don't make it through this year, I can at least know it's probably not because of tuberculosis, which took the lives of at least three of the folks up there. (Alcohol did most of the rest.)
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