In the movie Johnny Depp plays the 17th century Earl of Rochester who I believe was entered into Rippley's Believe It or Not for living the later part of his life wearing a nose cast in silver after his own was eaten away by the late stages of syphilis.A life long friend of mine lived most of his life pretty much as a libertine.In earlier times,his rogueish behaviour was his most admiriable quality.Later toward his end,he was just a pathetic drunk. I could do nothing for him and finally around 1996 I decided to burn that bridge. After a long illness that included a tumor on his spinal cord and severe bleeding ulsers,his sister called late one night in 2002 to inform me that he had passed away.I felt little more than a distant memory of a couple of kids in high school.He could never stop distroying himself and didn't live to see 50.

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Sex is one of nine reasons for reincarnation.The other eight are unimportant...Henry Miller