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Sammy Davis Jr. Word is that Sammy weighed less than his age which was 64 at the time of his death. No shit. Only the oldest skinniest corpses can pull that off. The heaviest part of his body was probably his glass eye which I hope some mortician's assistant had the good sense to remove as a keepsake. It'd be a waste to bury it. Now Jerry Garcia longtime figurehead for a dope smoking blotter sucking dance-in-the-aisles sold-out hippie culture Jerry is now paying for the finest doctors & prescription drugs with the cash you spent on a stadium seat in '72 or '79 or '84 or '92. Don't tell me how incomparably communal you felt after that mesc. I dropped a tab and watched Mary Tyler Moore;

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